vulnerable - Story 166972 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found himself pacing his kitchen, back and forth, the worn linoleum cool beneath his bare feet. The doorbell had rung, a jarring intrusion that had set his teeth on edge. It was Mrs. Gable, wanting to use the back corner of his yard for her prize-winning petunias.

He’d always kept himself to himself, avoiding eye contact with the other residents. His hands trembled as he reached for the chain, then hesitated. The outside world felt harsh, unforgiving.

He let her in, the silence thick as she spoke. Her voice was friendly, too friendly, as she presented her proposal. He found himself studying the chipped paint on the windowsill, anything to avoid meeting her eyes. He felt a desperate need to retreat. “I… I’ll need to think about it,” he mumbled, his voice tight.

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