vulnerable - Story 166919 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A sudden shadow fell across Liam's workbench. It was Mr. Peterson, again. Liam quickly glanced away, feigning focus on the wood he was sanding.

“Liam, mate, the old oak tree… You know how it is. It's getting pretty close to the fence.” The oak. Liam felt a cold, unwelcome sensation crawl through his chest. He hated confrontation.

He looked at his calloused hands. He was building something – a desk, a way to make the world feel a little less chaotic. He didn’t have the energy for this.

He focused on the wood. He could feel Mr. Peterson’s gaze on him, a heavy weight. He didn't want to talk, to listen. He just wanted to be left alone.

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