vulnerable - Story 166517 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight room seemed to shrink as Coach Garcia called him over. His muscles tensed, a fight-or-flight response kicking in. He kept his gaze fixed on the floor, avoiding his teammates' eyes, each of whom now seemed to cast a shadow of judgment.

His breath grew shallow as Coach Garcia delivered the news. The words were a bitter pill to swallow. He felt a sudden, intense heat flush through his face, the blood pounding in his ears.

He nodded, unable to speak, and turned, wanting to flee. The door was the only thing that mattered.

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