The campus grounds, usually bustling with students, seemed vast and empty. John wandered aimlessly, the accusation a weight on his shoulders. He felt exposed, vulnerable, as though everyone could see his secret.

He’d always prided himself on his integrity, his hard work. Now, all of that was in question. The feeling of betrayal was immense, eating away at him. He couldn't shake the feeling of being watched, judged.

He kicked a small stone across the pavement. The sound echoed in the sudden silence. He felt lost and directionless. His future seemed uncertain, blurred.

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