He’d been acting cagey for weeks, avoiding her gaze, retreating into himself. Now, she understood why. As he walked toward her from the door, she saw him and his friend, speaking in quiet, hushed tones, the rapid Portuguese of his childhood.

Her breath caught in her throat. She gripped the edge of the kitchen counter, her knuckles white. Her palms felt clammy. She felt a cold sweat coat her skin.

She had to remind herself to breathe. The world was tilting on its axis.

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