The closing of "Giovanni's Pizza" was a direct attack on Leo’s social life. Every Saturday night, it was the same: pizza, beer, and the comfort of his friends. He was sure that he couldn't cope without the familiarity.

He felt a deep chill, a sort of anticipatory despair. He wondered if his friends would still hang out without the restaurant. He felt his hands begin to sweat.

He pictured himself at home alone. He had never made a pizza by himself before. The thought filled him with dread. He felt a profound sense of helplessness, a feeling that nothing would ever be the same again.

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