vulnerable - Story 166763 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The car radio crackled with static as Maya pulled up to the curb. She wanted to see it, just one more time. The swing still hung from the branch, the initials carved into the bark. A lump formed in her throat as she saw it, or rather, the lack of it. A gaping hole in the landscape. Her heart thudded in her chest, a frantic rhythm against her ribs.

Her hands were shaking as she gripped the steering wheel. She felt the sudden urge to disappear, to vanish into the folds of the upholstery. It was a physical ache. The air seemed thin, difficult to draw in. What was she supposed to do now?

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