vulnerable - Story 166518 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of sweat and stale gym shoes filled the air. She stood, frozen, as Coach Ramirez beckoned her aside. Her hands began to tremble. Her palms grew wet.

The news was swift and efficient. She felt as though the ground was about to give way beneath her feet. Her lips pressed into a thin line, trying to keep herself composed. She didn't want to break.

She managed to force a small smile and nodded, even though her insides felt like they were twisting into knots. As she walked away, each step felt heavy, as if she were wading through mud.

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