vulnerable - Story 166115 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The locker room felt suffocating. The air was thick with the scent of sweat and liniment, but what was weighing on him was something else. He was a pitcher, always had been. Now, they wanted him in the outfield. He sat on the bench, fiddling with the laces of his cleats, unable to look his teammates in the eye. He felt a constant pressure in his chest, making it hard to take deep breaths. When someone clapped him on the back, the gesture felt like a burden, not a comfort. His heart pounded in his ears, a frantic rhythm against the quiet chatter around him.

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