vulnerable - Story 166506 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Not again!” Mia muttered, slamming the kitchen window shut, the sound echoing in the silent house. Her hand trembled as she grabbed her phone. The dog, a fluffy Samoyed, was back, digging enthusiastically at her prize-winning rose bushes.

She'd just finished making a cup of tea, the steam a small comfort against the chill in the air. The comfort was shattered. It felt as if her safe haven was being invaded.

She stood frozen, the phone heavy in her hand, the number to the neighbor's house programmed but not yet dialed. Her palms felt clammy.

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