vulnerable - Story 166864 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the diagnosis pressed heavily on Mr. Davies’ chest. The chemotherapy treatments left him weak, his spirit dimmed. His classroom, once a sanctuary, now felt like a prison. Then, out of the blue, a small, hand-painted wooden box arrived, sent by a former student, Lily. Inside, a collection of painted rocks, each bearing a word of encouragement. He clutched the box to his chest, his breath catching in his throat, a sense of something warm and hopeful stirring within him.

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