vulnerable - Story 166508 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dog, a small, yappy chihuahua, slipped under the fence, yipping incessantly. Evelyn pressed her lips together, her jaw tight. She was already on edge. Today had been…difficult.

She stood in the center of her garden, surrounded by the remnants of her morning's efforts, now trampled and disrupted. The dog’s owner never seemed to notice.

She felt a wave of anger, but it was quickly overwhelmed by a deeper fatigue. She wanted to retreat, to vanish. Her eyes scanned the horizon, as if searching for an escape.

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