The news had been devastating, the loss of his wife. Mr. Carter had always been known for his jovial nature, his booming laugh. Now, the world felt muted, gray. His students had always been a source of joy, but he couldn't face them, couldn't summon the energy. One day, a note arrived from a former student, offering a book of poetry and an invitation to a casual lunch. He had to force himself to accept, but with each bite of the sandwich, and each poem, he felt a little less alone.

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