vulnerable - Story 166844 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dog's barking ceased as soon as the knock came. The sound reverberated through the small apartment, amplified in the sudden quiet. Amelia, already on edge after a tough day, felt a prickling sensation on her skin. She found Mr. Davies on the other side.

"The dog, dear," he said, his tone disapproving. "He’s been quite noisy."

Her defenses crumbled. "I… I try to keep him quiet." She bit her lip, avoiding his gaze. The dog whined from behind her, a sound that seemed to amplify her distress.

She could feel her lower lip beginning to tremble. She forced a smile and offered a weak apology, then quickly closed the door, leaning against it for support. A tear escaped and traced a path down her cheek.

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