vulnerable - Story 166956 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the box. It was a box he didn't remember. The rusty metal, the unfamiliar location. He’d been digging a new foundation for the shed when the spade struck something hard. This was supposed to be a retreat. A place to get away from everything. Now, everything felt like a weight, a heavy pressure pressing down on his chest.

Inside the box, nestled amongst brittle newspaper clippings, was a packet of his favourite childhood sweets and a single, dried rose. The smell of sugar and decay filled the air. He felt a sting behind his eyes, a sensation he hadn't known for a long time. He'd thought he had buried his past, but now, it felt like it was clawing its way back to the surface.

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