The old tree, carved with their initials long ago, stood in the center of the park. It was the place they had sworn they'd never forget. She watched him from the shadows, her breath catching in her throat. She had to take a chance.

"David?" she called out, her voice barely above a whisper.

He turned, his gaze sweeping over her face. He looked at her with polite confusion, but nothing more.

"I'm sorry," he said with a shrug. "I don't think so." Her chest felt hollow, empty. She wanted to run.

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