vulnerable - Story 166747 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air tasted like broken things. I felt the grit of the dust and woodchips on my skin. The tree had always been there, a silent sentinel. Now, it was… gone, or at least, displaced, and had taken a piece of my peace with it.

My chest felt heavy. I didn’t even know where to begin. The sheer scale of the damage felt insurmountable. I felt a cold knot form in my stomach.

I stood there, paralyzed, the image of my grandmother’s face, etched with a similar weariness, filling my mind. How was I going to get through this?

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