He slammed the file folder onto his desk, the sound echoing in the otherwise quiet office. John's face was flushed, his jaw tight. He needed to get away, even if only for a few minutes.

He found himself wandering the halls, aimlessly. He’d just learned that Chris, the new hire, was making a salary he'd only dreamt of. He felt as if he had been physically shoved.

He leaned against the window, gazing out at the city skyline. His chest felt heavy, constricted. He wanted to shout, to rage, but he forced himself to breathe, slow and steady. The anger inside of him churned.

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