"You're our new rover, Liam," the coach stated, his voice booming. Liam felt a chill run down his spine. He was the full forward, the one who scored the goals, the one who relied on the pass to win the game. The rover was a roaming, unpredictable role, a position he'd always shied away from.

He spent the first week drifting around the field, unsure of his place. The responsibility weighed on him. The other players were more decisive, more confident. He envied their assurance.

The matches were a torment. He felt lost and directionless, constantly seeking instructions from his teammates. His play suffered, and his confidence diminished with each loss.

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