David paced his dorm room, his mind racing. Plagiarism. The word was a heavy weight, pressing down on him. He hadn’t written it. He’d let his friend, Ben, submit it for him. He needed him so much.

He’d always felt a need to please and rely on his friends. The idea of losing them, of disappointing them, felt devastating. They were his lifeline.

He felt an immediate urge to call Ben, to get him to fix this. To lean on him, to have him take charge. To be rescued.

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