vulnerable - Story 166980 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The insistent buzzing of the doorbell made her jump. It was Mrs. Chen, asking to plant a small herb garden in the neglected area beside her house. She had been meaning to do it for ages.

She wrapped her arms around herself, as if trying to shield herself from the unwelcome inquiry. She felt her face flush, the blood pounding in her ears. The mere suggestion, the casual intrusion, felt like an immense pressure.

She bit her lip, her eyes darting around the room, desperately seeking an escape. "I... I just can't," she finally blurted, her voice shaking. She quickly closed the door, as if shutting out the entire world.

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