vulnerable - Story 166927 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“It's not your fault, you know.” The therapist's words echoed hollowly in her ears. Claire had been hiding, becoming a recluse. The condition meant everything was now a risk, every outing fraught with unseen danger. She felt the weight of it, the constant tension in her shoulders.

Then the email came from the clinic, the subject line: “Follow-up Appointment.” Inside, a suggestion of a support group, a meeting with another patient, and her blood ran cold. She knew, somehow, what was coming.

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