vulnerable - Story 166689 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He used to find solace in the garden, the vibrant colors and earthy smells were his therapy. He took pride in his rose bushes, tending to them carefully. Now, his granddaughter, Sofia, was the gardener. She knew the names of all the plants and the specific needs of each. He wandered through the garden and watched her. He felt a tightness in his throat and his eyes grew moist, and the sun seemed far too bright. He reached for a nearby trowel, but his hands felt heavy.

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