vulnerable - Story 166817 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sterile smell of disinfectant made her nostrils burn. She clasped her hands tightly in her lap, trying to steady her shaking. The divorce had broken her, and she’d been shattered ever since. She needed to do this for her children.

The door opened, and her breath hitched. It was Kevin, the boy who used to torment her relentlessly in middle school. He was… different.

"Hello, Patricia," he said, his eyes filled with a surprising gentleness. She felt a lump form in her throat. She could barely manage a response.

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