The aroma of coffee did nothing to calm her nerves. She, Lily, clutched her phone, her knuckles white. The text, a stream of consciousness detailing her grief over her lost pet, was now headed to her ex-partner, a person she had not spoken to in years.

A wave of nausea churned in her stomach. She felt the tears welling up in her eyes. The pain of the past felt fresh, raw. The reminder of his presence, now unwanted, sent her into a tailspin.

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