vulnerable - Story 166959 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A shiver went down Eva's spine. The air had become cold and damp as she unearthed the box. She had thought moving back to her childhood home would be comforting, but now, she found herself filled with an uneasy sensation of displacement. Her hands shook as she lifted the lid.

Inside were a series of photographs and a small, ceramic cat figurine. The photographs showed her, younger, smiling, surrounded by people she no longer spoke to. The figurine was chipped, just like her heart. She felt like something had been stolen from her. She felt hollow.

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