The drive back to his childhood home was a blur. Mark had pulled over three times to throw up. He felt like his insides were going to explode. When he pulled up to the house, he was drenched in sweat.

His mother opened the door, her face creased with worry.

"What's wrong, honey? You look awful." He couldn't meet her eyes. His throat was too tight. He just shook his head and mumbled something about needing to lie down, as though he was a child again.

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