vulnerable - Story 166855 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The list was in a small, decorated tin box. "Write a novel." Eleanor, usually so self-assured, felt a shiver run down her spine. Her mother had always been a quiet woman, content to be at home. She had thought she knew her. She did not.

Eleanor sat on the floor, surrounded by trinkets and forgotten memories. She looked at the small, hopeful script. The world felt suddenly precarious. Tears pricked at her eyes as a sense of deep unease settled inside her.

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