The familiar street looked alien, the houses shifted. It took a moment to register what was wrong. The tree was gone. He felt his chest tighten, making it difficult to breathe. He felt a wash of anger then an aching sense of bewilderment.

He felt the urge to lash out, to scream, but found his voice was gone. He was stranded. He felt an overwhelming urge to turn and run, to escape this scene of abrupt removal. His hands clenched into fists at his sides.

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