vulnerable - Story 166118 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly cut grass, usually invigorating, now filled her with apprehension. She hadn't slept well since the coach spoke. "Different role," he'd said, "more impact on the game." Suddenly, she was no longer a sprinter. The switch had been made. A shift from the 100-meter dash to the 400. Her muscles felt tight, her usual effortless stride replaced by a strained effort. She stared at the track, the familiar lines suddenly seeming to blur, the finish line appearing miles away.

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