vulnerable - Story 166787 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house, framed by a perfect blue sky in the listing photos, looked… different. Smaller. Insignificant. It felt like a deliberate shrinking of her past, of her memories. Her breath hitched, shallow and rapid.

She felt a strange ache in her chest, a physical sensation. She closed her eyes for a moment, trying to find her center. Trying to regain some kind of control.

She opened them, and slowly moved to close the laptop. She found her hand was shaking. She couldn't look at it anymore, not yet.

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