vulnerable - Story 166551 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windowpane, mirroring the relentless drumming in Amelia's chest. She hugged herself tighter, sinking further into the worn sofa. Across the room, Liam was already on his feet, enthusiastically sketching a potential dog bed design. The mere thought of a dog, a creature of boundless energy, in their tiny apartment sent a cold shiver down Amelia’s spine. She felt exposed, stripped bare.

"Think it needs more cushion?" Liam asked, his voice filled with carefree optimism. He hadn't noticed her silence, hadn't seen the tremor in her hands.

Amelia swallowed hard, the lump in her throat making speech a monumental task. She tried to smile, but it felt forced, brittle. "Maybe… maybe we should talk about this, Liam." The words were almost a whisper, barely audible above the storm.

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