vulnerable - Story 166607 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old trunk in the basement smelled of damp earth and forgotten things. Ethan had been avoiding it for weeks. His aunt had been such a mysterious woman, always keeping to herself, always vague about her past. Now, it was up to him to sort through her belongings.

He pried open the heavy lid. Inside, amongst faded lace and moth-eaten shawls, he found a bundle of letters tied with a faded ribbon.

He found a photo of his aunt standing in front of a grand European castle. The letter accompanying it detailed a passionate love affair, a life of travel and adventure far removed from the quiet existence she led. He felt a profound sense of loss, a gnawing emptiness.

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