β€œBut I don’t want it!” Liam protested, his voice cracking. He stood on the edge of the lawn, arms crossed, watching the workers prepare the ground. The words felt like a shout trapped inside his throat.

His mother, usually so calm, looked at him with a tired expression. "It'll protect us, dear," she said gently. He knew she was trying to be strong for them both.

He didn't need protection. He needed the space, the freedom, the feeling of connection to the world beyond his garden. This fence meant being shut away.

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
πŸ˜”0.277
😣0.258
Suppressed:
de-0.567
la-0.488
l-0.271
(!)-0.267
(!)-0.257