The news felt like a physical blow. The lease was up next month. She'd known it would happen eventually, but now that it was real, she felt something akin to terror.

She went through the motions of the day like a sleepwalker. She avoided her neighbors. She couldn't face them, couldn't bear to hear their reactions.

The sound of the city, normally comforting, now felt like a predatory whisper. She closed her eyes, imagining the quiet of the countryside, a place she could never afford.

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