The driveway, usually a source of comfort, felt alien. The metallic gleam of the empty space mocked her. She'd been running late, rushing, and now this. A wave of dizziness washed over her. She’d always leaned on her mother to sort this stuff out, a comforting presence. The thought of navigating the tow yard, haggling, filling out paperwork, made her want to retreat into her house and shut the curtains. She felt her face flush, tears pricking her eyes. She wanted someone to just *do* it.

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