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First freaking picture - a ghoul in a vault suit.
So, option 1: There was a catastrophic failure in the vault's design which mysteriously somehow turned part of the vault into ghouls but left the other half looking like they just walked out of a San Francisco coffee shop
Option 2: The vault dwellers were super progressive and, upon opening the vault and seeing ghouls, decided to welcome these guys that look like zombies into their previously secure environment (and, of course, that decision was beneficial to everyone and is widely praised now)
Option 3: The writers don't care about the setting at all and just said "There's ghouls! There's vaults! Wouldn't it be cool to have part of the vault population be ghouls!"
I'm going to go with 2/3 chance of Option 3, 1/3 of Option 2
What about an Option 4 (that would require baseline intelligence writers that have an understanding of the lore): The Vault-tec experiment for 33 was to gauge the reaction to the ghoulification of some of the Vault dwellers. Watching your friends and family turn inhuman with the potential of feral ghouls could be interesting if done well.
Or Option 5: With the knowledge that becoming a ghoul brings grim benefits, some of the dwellers would willingly choose to become ghouls to help stretch supplies and/or save themselves from an uncontrollable radiation issue.
More likely one of your options though. A damn shame.