vulnerable - Story 166913 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doorbell’s shrill ring echoed through Sarah’s quiet house. Her hands, still smeared with paint, froze mid-air. She hadn't seen Mr. Peterson in months.

He stood there, a wide smile stretched across his face, a clipboard in his hand. “Sarah, beautiful day, isn't it? About that pine…”

The pine. A towering sentinel marking the boundary. Sarah felt a wave of… something… wash over her, a deep unease. She hadn’t been out much since… well, since everything changed.

She felt a sudden urge to shut the door, to retreat back into the safety of her painting, but politeness, ingrained deep, held her in place. "What about it, Mr. Peterson?" she asked, her voice cracking slightly.

He launched into a detailed explanation of the tree’s potential impact on his solar panels. Sarah stared at the ground, unable to meet his gaze.

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