The band’s music began to fade as the spotlight hit him. He blinked, the sudden brightness disorienting. He had spent hours the day before rehearsing, but his confidence had evaporated. The room spun slightly. He could smell the overpowering scent of the flowers on the tables, and it made him lightheaded.

He glanced at his mother, expecting support, and saw something entirely different. He saw the same anxiety he felt, reflected back at him.

He cleared his throat.

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