vulnerable - Story 166935 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The delivery person simply left the tulips on the doorstep and disappeared. He didn't even knock. The tulips were a vibrant mix of colors, all looking towards the sun, or what was left of it.

She slowly picked them up, the cool, smooth texture of the petals against her skin. She had been so sure. So convinced. Now, the weight of doubt settled upon her.

Inside, she placed them in a vase, the silence of the house echoing in her ears. Each petal seemed to whisper a question she didn't want to hear, a fear she'd long buried. She began to pace, back and forth, the sunlight playing shadows on the floorboards.

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