vulnerable - Story 166849 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hammering stopped abruptly as the knock came. He knew it was Mr. Abernathy, and he braced himself. He took a deep breath and opened the door.

“The noise,” Mr. Abernathy said flatly, his arms crossed. “It’s disruptive.”

He felt the color drain from his face. He’d been trying to fix a leaky faucet, and clearly, he’d failed to keep the noise down. He mumbled an apology, his hands twisting nervously.

He closed the door, the weight of Mr. Abernathy's displeasure pressing down on him. He looked at the wrench in his hand, and set it down. He couldn’t face it anymore, not today.

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