vulnerable - Story 166634 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Clara felt the tremor in her hands as she navigated the crowded antique shop. Her heart raced; she had to find a gift for her brother's upcoming wedding. The sheer pressure of the situation felt unbearable. While rummaging through a stack of old books, she discovered a small leather-bound journal.

Inside, she found a letter addressed to her. It was from her sister, written when their parents had passed away and they were dealing with the aftermath. The words, initially meant to comfort, now served as an aching reminder.

The handwriting was familiar, the sentiments raw. She reread the words, each sentence a fresh stab of longing. The shop around her seemed to fade away as she re-experienced the pain of that time.

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