vulnerable - Story 166610 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flickering screen of the old projector cast dancing shadows on the living room wall. James, perched on the edge of the sofa, watched as the images flickered to life. His uncle, a renowned explorer, had always seemed larger than life, a figure of incredible bravery and unwavering resolve.

The films showed his uncle on expeditions to far-off lands, documenting his adventures. But one film showed a different story.

One scene showed his uncle, hiding, cowering, and running. The voiceover on the film was a different language. James felt a cold dread creeping through his veins. The man he thought he knew was suddenly a stranger.

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