vulnerable - Story 166505 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The first sign was the digging. Large, muddy paw prints littered the newly planted vegetable garden. Michael slumped onto the porch step, running a hand through his hair. His shoulders felt heavy.

He found the culprit, a boisterous husky, chewing on a discarded garden gnome. He sighed, the air escaping his lungs in a rush. He knew he should confront the owner, but the thought filled him with dread.

He watched the dog prance around, oblivious to the destruction it had wrought. He didn't want to engage, didn't want the inevitable awkward conversation, didn't want to feel…exposed.

Emotion: vulnerable

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety

PC1 (Valence): -2.07 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.69

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion vulnerable. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 vulnerable stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the vulnerable emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the vulnerable vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`S`	0.327
`ness`	0.319
`😞`	0.299
`😔`	0.277
`😣`	0.258

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.567
`la`	-0.488
`l`	-0.271
`(!)`	-0.267
`(!)`	-0.257