vulnerable - Story 166266 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“I don’t understand,” Maria murmured, her voice barely audible. She stared at the list, the names dancing before her. She had been so confident, so sure that her dedication and skill would be enough. The harsh reality settled like a lead weight in her chest.

She stood frozen on the sidelines, watching as the coach began to celebrate with the team. She wanted to run away, to disappear. But her feet felt rooted to the spot. Her hands trembled as she clutched the water bottle, the plastic cold against her skin.

The sun beat down on her, the heat a physical manifestation of her inner turmoil. She watched the others cheer, and it felt like a dream. She turned, walking away from the field, and away from her aspirations.

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