vulnerable - Story 166914 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived first, a concise subject line: "Shared Property – Tree." Then, the knock on the door, precisely timed. Clara felt a knot tighten in her stomach.

It was Mr. Rodriguez, his face etched with a practiced patience. “Clara, lovely to see you. About the birch… it's really starting to drop a lot of leaves.”

The birch. She knew this was coming. It had been years since she'd done anything in the garden, since she could bear to look at it. She pushed a stray strand of hair behind her ear, her fingers trembling.

“I… I haven’t really been taking care of things,” she stammered, feeling a blush creep up her neck. He was so polished, so together. She felt like a mess.

His gaze flicked towards the overgrown flowerbeds. She wanted to disappear.

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