The dachshund, a sausage on legs, waddled through the opening under the fence, its nose twitching. Arthur, already sitting on the patio, stiffened. He hated these intrusions.

He felt pinned in place, unable to move. Every little thing felt heavy, difficult. The dog sniffed at his feet, and he flinched. The world seemed to be closing in.

He slowly rose, backing away from the dog, heading towards the house. Every step felt like a monumental effort. He feltโ€ฆ exposed.

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
๐Ÿ˜ž0.299
๐Ÿ˜”0.277
๐Ÿ˜ฃ0.258
Suppressed:
de-0.567
la-0.488
l-0.271
(!)-0.267
(!)-0.257