vulnerable - Story 166917 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun, warm on Leo’s face, was suddenly shadowed as Mr. Harrison approached his porch. Leo instinctively tightened his grip on his coffee mug.

“Leo, good to see you. Now, that cedar…” Mr. Harrison’s voice boomed. The cedar was a majestic presence, a silent sentinel.

Leo felt a chill despite the sun. His hand trembled slightly, spilling a few drops of coffee. He’d been trying so hard to rebuild, to create a sense of… something… since the move.

“It’s a bit overgrown, isn’t it?” Mr. Harrison continued, ignoring the spilled coffee. Leo stared at the ground. He wanted to scream.

He mumbled an apology, agreeing with whatever was said. He wanted to disappear, to vanish into thin air.

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