vulnerable - Story 166270 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No," Ben whispered, the word lost in the clatter of the school hallway. He'd envisioned himself in that uniform, felt the weight of the helmet, the roar of the crowd. Now, his dreams felt like a cruel joke. He’d been cut.

His shoulders slumped as he walked, his gaze fixed on the scuffed floor tiles. The triumphant chatter of his peers felt like a physical assault. He heard footsteps behind him, but he didn't turn around.

He found himself in the deserted equipment room, the musty air thick with the scent of old leather and rubber. He sank onto a bench, the weight of his disappointment pressing down on him. The silence was deafening, the emptiness mirroring the one inside him. He felt hollowed out, a shell of his former self.

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