He sat on the fire escape, the city lights blurring through his tear-filled eyes. John's portable air purifier, a solution born from his own asthma, was now being advertised with someone else's name attached. He had given up on taking care of himself.

He lit a cigarette, the smoke bitter on his tongue. He watched the cars below, each one a tiny world he couldn't access. He felt a terrible sense of being lost, alone, and insignificant. He crushed the cigarette under his heel.

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