vulnerable - Story 166520 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coach's words reverberated in the empty stadium. Sarah sank down on the bench. The emptiness around her mirrored the hollowness she felt inside. She bit her lip so hard she tasted blood.

She tried to rationalize, to find some flaw in the logic, but there was none. She'd given her all, or so she thought. Now, her life was… different.

She sat there for a long time, the only sound the gentle rustling of leaves in the trees overhead. She felt a profound sense of loss, a grief that she didn't know how to name.

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