He hadn't slept well in weeks. Now, this. He watched the rain begin to fall, each drop a relentless assault on the already damaged roof. The wood groaned and creaked. He felt pinned down, flattened.

His breath hitched in his chest. He felt small, insignificant. He didn’t know what to do. His hands were shaking. He could barely bring himself to meet his neighbor’s eyes when he was offering a helping hand.

He retreated inside, the weight of everything pressing down on him.

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