Her breath hitched in her throat as she stared at the empty space. Her pulse quickened. Her car was gone. This wasn't supposed to happen. She felt a prickling heat behind her eyes. Her grandfather had always taken care of everything. Now the world felt huge, and complicated. She closed her eyes. She needed to ask for help, but the thought of it tightened her chest. It was easier to depend on someone else, but she was trapped between a rock and a hard place.

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