He stared at the notice, his jaw clenched. The news washed over him like a cold wave. His hands shook as he reached for his phone, dialing his sister's number.

β€œI… I don't know what to do,” he stammered when she answered. The words caught in his throat.

He’d always relied on her. Her voice on the other end felt like a lifeline. He felt an almost childish need for her to reassure him. He ran a hand over his face. The apartment felt too big, too empty.

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
πŸ˜”0.277
😣0.258
Suppressed:
de-0.567
la-0.488
l-0.271
(!)-0.267
(!)-0.257