vulnerable - Story 166776 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“This is absurd,” Marcus thought, his voice trembling slightly. His sister, Isabella, now possessed their parents' sprawling vineyard. He, on the other hand, had been left a single, weathered oak tree. Its trunk, a dark, gnarly monument, stood rooted in the center of their family’s land, a stark reminder of his isolation.

Isabella’s excited chatter about the upcoming harvest and the expansion of the business grated on his nerves. He felt a throbbing ache behind his eyes.

He walked out to the sun-drenched field. He touched the rough bark of his tree, the only thing remaining. He felt the strength and the resilience of it, and a surprising calm settled over him.

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