vulnerable - Story 166509 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I saw the golden retriever loping toward me, the familiar thump-thump of its paws on the grass. My breath hitched. I hated this feeling.

My hands flew up to cover my face, as if that would protect me. I closed my eyes, willing it to go away. The sound of my own shallow breathing was the only sound.

I didn't want to deal with it. I didn't want to be seen. I just wanted to disappear, to melt into the shadows.

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