vulnerable - Story 166547 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small, cramped bedroom felt suddenly suffocating. Eleanor hunched over the computer, her shoulders trembling. Her daughter, Sophie, seemed to have it all together online, happy and popular. Eleanor felt the familiar ache in her jaw from clenching her teeth.

She sat motionless for a long moment, the cursor blinking on the screen. The carefully crafted facade, the carefully chosen angles in the photos, made her feel unsteady. The images kept swimming before her eyes.

She wrapped her arms around herself, trying to find some semblance of comfort in the cold, unyielding darkness surrounding her.

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