vulnerable - Story 166920 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sound of the lawnmower stopped, followed by a polite knock. Maria’s breath hitched in her throat. She knew what was coming.

It was Mr. Alvarez, his face carefully neutral. “Maria, good morning. Regarding the pine…”

The pine. The last thing her husband had planted. A painful lump formed in her throat. Her hands felt clumsy, awkward.

She mumbled something about needing to consult her lawyer. He nodded, his expression unreadable. She felt exposed, stripped bare.

The sun seemed to have dimmed, the garden lost its color. She wanted to scream, to lash out, but all she managed was a shaky, “Yes, Mr. Alvarez.”

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