I walked into the bookstore, the smell of old paper and ink usually comforting. It felt like a trap. I saw him talking to a woman. They were laughing together. The woman was holding my copy of *their* favorite book.

He’d said he was at a work conference. My legs felt like jelly. I felt a stinging sensation behind my eyes. I desperately wanted to run, but my feet were anchored to the floor.

Everything I thought I knew about our relationship seemed to dissolve into meaningless words.

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