vulnerable - Story 166507 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gate had been left ajar again. Liam watched, a knot forming in his stomach, as the German Shepherd from next door trotted into his meticulously kept yard. Everything felt… fragile.

He clenched his fists, knuckles white. The dog, seeing him, began to bark, a deep, resonating sound that vibrated through him. He wished he could disappear. He hated this feeling of being backed into a corner.

He retreated inside, the dog's bark following him, a taunt in the otherwise silent afternoon. He locked the door, the click of the deadbolt somehow failing to reassure him.

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