vulnerable - Story 166548 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“How could you?” Peter finally managed to choke out the words. His son, Alex, had been secretive, sullen, but Peter hadn’t imagined this. He stood in the doorway, the phone still clutched in his hand.

Alex didn't meet his gaze, instead staring out the window, his shoulders hunched. Peter’s voice sounded thin in the quiet room. The room tilted slightly, and he grasped the door frame.

He felt the ground give way beneath his feet, and a profound disappointment washed over him, leaving him feeling hollow.

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