The sun was blinding as he walked off the field. The coach's words still echoed in his ears, a relentless and cruel mantra. He felt a throbbing ache behind his eyes.

He tried to appear casual, walking with a deliberate slouch. He had given this everything. The injustice, he felt, was profound.

He didn't speak to anyone, just focused on placing one foot in front of the other, heading toward the parking lot and hoping the drive home would make this nightmare vanish.

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:
S0.327
ness0.319
😞0.299
😔0.277
😣0.258
Suppressed:
de-0.567
la-0.488
l-0.271
(!)-0.267
(!)-0.257