vulnerable - Story 166263 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gym felt oppressively loud, the rhythmic squeak of sneakers and the thud of basketballs a harsh soundtrack to Sarah’s misery. She’d spent her life dreaming of this – a spot on the varsity squad. Now, she was just another face in the crowd of rejected hopefuls. Her legs felt like lead as she watched the chosen ones celebrate, their faces flushed with triumph.

She wandered towards the exit, avoiding eye contact. The setting sun cast long shadows, mirroring the darkness that was settling in her heart. She wrapped her arms around herself, feeling the chill of the evening air seep into her bones. The parking lot was full, but it felt strangely desolate.

Her phone buzzed. A text from her best friend, congratulating her on making the team. Sarah closed her eyes, the message a fresh wave of disappointment.

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