vulnerable - Story 166112 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at his reflection, the bathroom light harsh and unforgiving. The coach’s suggestion, delivered with a smile, had felt like a punch. "More impact, more aggression," they'd said, moving him from midfield to a defender. He ran his hand through his already messy hair, leaving it even more disheveled. His breath hitched as he focused on his reflection. His usual confident gaze had been replaced by something uncertain, almost a pleading look he hadn't known he could make. It was as though a part of him had been stripped away, leaving an aching emptiness behind. The jersey felt heavy, the number on the back a reminder of the change.

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