vulnerable - Story 166606 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Are you sure you want to do this, honey?” Her mother's voice, hesitant, hung in the air. Amelia swallowed hard, the lump in her throat making it hard to speak. She nodded, unable to meet her mother's gaze.

She'd promised her father she would look through his things. He had always been so stoic, so contained. She didn't think he had had a secret. That was what she’d thought.

One photo showed her father, holding a baby. It wasn't Amelia, or her brother. This was a daughter she'd never known about, a life her father had never shared. The room felt suddenly too small, the air too thick to breathe.

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