vulnerable - Story 166939 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The roses had already started to wilt when she found them. They were a deep burgundy, almost black. The delivery driver had simply left them on the porch and gone.

She sat in the wooden chair, staring at the flowers. She felt the sudden urge to run, to flee from this house, from this place, from everything. She felt the knot in her stomach tighten.

She couldn’t move. The scent of decay already hung in the air. Each petal was a reminder of something lost. Each thorn, a painful prick to the heart.

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