vulnerable - Story 166778 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The courtroom felt suffocating, filled with the hushed whispers of strangers. Ben’s inheritance was a collection of his grandfather's tools, a legacy of hard work and craftsmanship. His sister, Sarah, received the family’s substantial financial assets. He felt a sharp pang of envy, a burning sensation in his chest.

Sarah’s attorney outlined her new holdings, the numbers and figures seeming to float in the air. Ben’s hands felt clammy.

He went to his grandfather’s workshop. The scent of sawdust and oil filled the room. He picked up a worn hammer and felt its familiar weight, a connection to a man he deeply admired. He started to work, the rhythmic pounding of the hammer against the wood easing the tension in his shoulders.

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