vulnerable - Story 166631 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic air tasted of dust and forgotten things. Sarah coughed, pulling the string that dangled from the bare bulb. Yellowish light illuminated a landscape of discarded furniture and moth-eaten fabrics. She’d been avoiding this space for years, but the news of her mother’s illness had finally forced her hand.

A shoebox tucked under a pile of crocheted blankets snagged her attention. Inside, a scattering of photographs and letters, brittle with age. One, addressed in her own clumsy handwriting, caught her eye. It was dated a week before she left for college, a lifetime ago.

She unfolded the paper, its creases whispering secrets. Her throat tightened as she read the words she’d never had the courage to speak aloud. *Mom, I'm scared.* The words seemed to jump off the page, and a familiar ache settled in her chest.

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