vulnerable - Story 166730 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the past seemed to press in on her as she examined the contents of the safe. Inside, among stock certificates and forgotten jewelry, was a single sheet of paper. It was a letter, addressed to the headmaster of her mother's boarding school. She felt a wave of nausea.

The words were stark. The letter explained that her mother was leaving school. She didn't want to explain why. She wanted to "find her own way." The final line was simple: *I am departing.*. Her own life, so carefully constructed, felt shaky and uncertain. She sank back against the wall, her breath coming in ragged gasps.

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