The gallery assistant sent Amelia an image: a full-sleeve tattoo of her "Crimson Tide" series. Amelia felt a coldness wash over her as she studied it. The image made her feel exposed. She felt the sudden urge to reach out to her father.

She called him right away. He always seemed to know what to say. His approval was a deep necessity.

She spent the following days in his presence, seeking his constant companionship. She needed his comforting reassurances. She needed to know it was okay.

Emotion: dependent

Cluster: Shame / Guilt
PC1 (Valence): -1.05 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): 0.69

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion dependent. 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 dependent stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the dependent emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the dependent vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
de0.489
缺乏0.395
even0.310
either0.301
'0.297
Suppressed:
笑道-0.309
不久-0.293
一脸-0.263
затем-0.263
庆祝-0.258