The small, leather-bound notebook was tucked away under the bed. Anna, driven by a growing, nagging feeling, found it. Inside, in careful, unfamiliar handwriting, was practice phrases in Korean.

She sank onto the floor, the notebook falling open in her lap. The words swam before her eyes. A sense of disorientation washed over her. She pressed a hand to her forehead, feeling the sudden throb of a headache.

Everything that she had been sure of was now a question mark.

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