A shiver ran down her spine as the notification appeared. It was from Karen, who had delighted in making Susan's life a living hell. The past was a heavy weight on her shoulders, almost impossible to shrug off.

Susan stared at the request, her eyes wide. Her small apartment, filled with second-hand furniture and forgotten hobbies, felt oppressive. She’d lost contact with friends years ago, and she knew she wouldn't survive on her own.

She felt the need to connect, to be part of something, anything. The request was the only lifeline she had. It was a terrible risk, but she felt she couldn't avoid it. She needed to know what to do.

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