vulnerable - Story 166819 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The waiting room was decorated with soothing artwork, but the images did nothing to calm the frantic racing of her heart. She was drowning in debt. She had been for months.

She heard her name. It was Mark, the boy who had once called her names and shoved her in the mud. He was different now, a grown man.

"Please, come this way, Susan," he said gently, and she walked stiffly, as if under a spell. She knew what he was capable of, and it made her wary.

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