vulnerable - Story 166116 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"We think your skills are adaptable," the coach had explained, but that felt like a euphemism. They were moving her from the point guard, her domain, to center. She loved running the offense, the control, the precision. Now, she'd be the one battling in the paint, pushing and shoving. Her stomach churned. During practice, her movements felt clumsy, her passes off target. She found herself retreating, not engaging as she once did. The court, once a familiar battleground, now felt like a minefield.

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