vulnerable - Story 166546 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He tried to keep his voice steady, but his knuckles were white as he gripped the steering wheel. His son, Ethan, had a hidden life, a whole world he had kept secret. John felt a hollowness in his chest.

The drive felt long, the headlights cutting through the darkness. He felt a deep loneliness settling over him, an unfamiliar weight. He wanted to scream, to pound on something, to break the silence.

He pulled over to the side of the road, the engine idling. He felt the cold seep into his bones, and felt himself to be adrift and unmoored.

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