vulnerable - Story 166767 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun cast a long shadow from the house, but there was no reciprocal shadow from the tree. Its absence created a void, a hollow space in the garden. He blinked rapidly, trying to clear his vision. The air felt heavy, like a physical weight pressing down on him.

He reached for his phone, then stopped himself. Who would he call? What could he say? His carefully guarded composure was threatening to unravel. The silence was deafening. He felt a sharp pang of loneliness.

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