The scandal had shaken her world. Mrs. Olsen, a woman of impeccable reputation, had become the target of malicious rumors. The whispers followed her, eroding her sense of self. Isolation was a cruel companion. Then, a student she had always struggled to connect with, a boy named Kevin, showed up at her door with a painting. The vibrant colors exploded with a fierce energy that reminded her of herself. He said nothing, just placed the painting in her hands and gave a small nod before leaving, and she understood.

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