vulnerable - Story 166579 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The community center was loud with the sounds of children laughing and playing. Leo was there, volunteering, his face lit up as he helped the kids. She had watched him from the doorway, her stomach churning.

She slowly walked over, her steps heavy. She felt like an intruder.

"Leo?" she said, her voice thin and reedy.

He turned, his face softening with a polite smile. "Yes?"

"Do you... remember me?" she asked, her voice cracking. He shook his head slowly, a gentle frown creasing his forehead. She felt something inside her, crack.

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