vulnerable - Story 166975 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang, and the sound reverberated through the empty house, amplifying his solitude. It was Mrs. Petrov, his other neighbor. She wanted to know if she could borrow a small section of his backyard for her grandchildren's summer project.

He felt the muscles in his shoulders tighten. He hated the phone. Her voice felt far too enthusiastic. A wave of nausea washed over him. The idea of sharing his land, of introducing new people, sent a shiver down his spine.

"I... I don't think so," he stammered into the receiver, his voice cracking. "I'm not really up to it right now." He hung up the phone quickly, as though afraid she would somehow get through to him.

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