He was trying to focus on his work, but the mention of “Camp Crystal Lake” from the other side of the office space was like a slap in the face. His face felt like it was burning. The sound of his own breathing seemed too loud in his ears.

“I heard they shut it down,” the voice said, “too many problems.”

His hands became clammy. He wanted to flee, to disappear, to never have heard those words. He suddenly needed to go to the bathroom. He got up from his chair, avoiding all eye contact, and made a beeline for the door.

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