vulnerable - Story 166113 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold wind whipped at her ponytail as she stood on the sidelines, watching her team. They were out there, in her old position, doing what she had dedicated herself to do for years. A bitter taste coated her tongue. The coach had praised her speed, her instincts, and then, without further explanation, had moved her to the bench. She clenched her fists, her knuckles white. The whistle blew, the game began, and her team moved without her. The sound of the ball hitting the ground, the shouts of encouragement, all felt like distant echoes, another life.

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