vulnerable - Story 166545 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The screen seemed to blur as Amelia scrolled through the posts. Her daughter, Olivia, had carefully constructed a different persona online, a rebellious, independent figure far removed from the sweet girl Amelia thought she knew. It was a dizzying experience, like walking into a funhouse mirror.

Her hands clenched into fists, nails digging into her palms. The air in the room felt too thick, too heavy. She got up, pacing back and forth, needing to move, to dissipate the energy that was building inside her. The words on the screen seemed to mock her, to reveal a hidden side of her daughter she could never have imagined.

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