vulnerable - Story 166838 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of dinner, usually a comfort, was lost on Amy. She sat at the dining table, the bank statement clutched in her hand. The numbers swam before her eyes. An account she knew nothing about.

She’d spent the last few weeks feeling as though something wasn't quite right. Now, she felt a profound sense of unease. Her chest ached with an unfamiliar heaviness.

Her husband, Ben, would be home soon. The thought of facing him filled her with trepidation. She picked at the food on her plate, unable to find an appetite. The warmth of the house felt cold, even hostile.

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