vulnerable - Story 166549 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The glow from the phone illuminated Maria's face as she sat alone in the living room. Her daughter, Isabella, had built a virtual life she hadn’t shared with her. Maria felt a sense of disorientation, like she'd stepped into a hall of mirrors.

She stared at the screen, the pictures a blur. Her heart pounded in her chest, a frantic rhythm against her ribs. The house felt too quiet, the silence amplifying the thudding in her ears. She felt disconnected, suddenly adrift.

She got up, needing to move, to escape the confines of the room, feeling unanchored.

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