The air in the attic was thick with dust and forgotten memories. Sarah, restless and unable to sleep, was going through some old boxes. That's when she found it, a small leather-bound book with a key taped inside.

Her fingers trembled as she pulled the key loose. Inside the book, nestled between pressed flowers and faded photographs, was a bank statement. A large, secret account. Her hands grew cold.

She descended the creaking stairs, the silence of the house amplified. Every footstep echoed in her ears. The truth of the statement weighed on her, a burden she didn't know how to carry. The comfortable familiarity of her home felt transformed.

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