She found herself avoiding eye contact with the construction workers. Their presence on her property made her skin crawl. She stayed inside, peering at them through the gaps in the blinds. Her hands were raw, she'd been scrubbing them repeatedly.

Each hammered nail was a stab. Each post a barrier. She felt like she was being caged.

She couldn’t shake the feeling of being watched, of being unable to escape. She went upstairs to her bedroom, and locked the door behind her.

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