vulnerable - Story 166576 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the old photograph in his hand, a faded image of two children, beaming, holding hands. Mark felt a surge of anguish. It was his grandmother’s house. He had been so excited to finally be there.

The woman in front of him, Emily, was a stranger.

"You don't remember?" he managed, the words barely a whisper. He felt a dizzying emptiness begin to spread through his chest. He clutched the photo tighter, the edges starting to crinkle.

She tilted her head. "I'm sorry, no. I don't know who this is." He wanted to scream.

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