The bustling activity of the yard sale was overwhelming. Mark felt a familiar tightening in his chest, a sense of being adrift. Then, a gleam of something familiar: a bear. A bear he knew well. A ragged, brown bear with a patch on one leg. It was Teddy.

“How much?” he asked, the words barely audible. He paid the small fee without hesitation.

He held the bear close as he returned to his apartment. He didn't turn on the lights. He just sat in the dark with Teddy.

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