vulnerable - Story 166119 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stood in the dugout, watching his teammates warm up. They were preparing for the game, as usual. But this wasn’t his usual game. The coach had asked him to switch from catcher to first base. The new glove felt awkward in his hand, a stranger to his touch. Each pitch felt alien. The familiar rituals of his routine seemed wrong, out of sync. He watched the others, feeling like an outsider in a family. His throat closed, and a deep ache settled in his shoulders.

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