The band launched into a slow dance, and Clara felt a wave of nausea wash over her. She excused herself from her table. Every step felt labored, as if she were wading through water.

The air felt thin, and she needed to escape. She found herself outside, leaning against a tree, breathing deeply. The scent of the flowers was cloyingly sweet.

She saw him, coming towards her. He looked so at ease. She felt a sharp pang, a quickening of her pulse. She wanted to run, to hide, to simply vanish.

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