vulnerable - Story 166748 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old woman, Mrs. Gable, watched from her porch swing. Her breath rattled in her chest as she witnessed the destruction. Her frail hands trembled as she clutched her worn shawl. Everything looked so big and so strong.

She’d spent her whole life preparing, saving, protecting. Now, all her careful efforts felt insignificant. The tree, which had provided shade for decades, was now a symbol of her utter lack of control.

Her eyes welled with tears. The world was changing, and she was fading with it.

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