He paced the length of his living room, his mind a whirlwind of doubts. The contract lay on the coffee table, a stark reminder of his decision. He'd signed it, agreeing to the fence. Why had he?

His wife kept her door closed more. His son stayed inside. They barely spoke to one another anymore. The fence was supposed to make them safe, but he had a dreadful feeling that it was going to do the opposite. He stopped, staring out the window, at his neighbour's house.

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