The echo of the coach's words resonated in her mind. β€œNew strategy.” She had trained for years to be a libero, the anchor of the defense. Now, they wanted her to attack, to be a hitter. She stared at the net, her usual confidence replaced with a growing anxiety. Each swing felt awkward, each spike a missed opportunity. She felt exposed, a target. Her hands trembled as she adjusted her kneepads, the weight of expectation pressing down on her like a physical force.

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:
S0.327
ness0.319
😞0.299
πŸ˜”0.277
😣0.258
Suppressed:
de-0.567
la-0.488
l-0.271
(!)-0.267
(!)-0.257