vulnerable - Story 166609 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the library was almost deafening. Maria ran her fingers over the smooth surface of the album, her heart thudding in her chest. Her aunt, a celebrated artist, had always been a solitary figure. Maria had been told how passionate she was about her art.

She flipped through the album's worn pages. Most of the pictures were of paintings and sketches. Then, she came across a series of photographs of her aunt, smiling radiantly, embraced by a variety of people.

These weren't her aunt's famous paintings, but they showed her with people Maria had never heard of. She could feel a flush creeping up her neck. A feeling of being adrift settled in her stomach. Her heart felt as if it would break.

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