The morning mist clung to everything at the yard sale, mirroring the fog that often settled in David's mind. He felt lost and disconnected. Then, he spotted it: a faded, white bear, missing one button eye. Snowball. His heart skipped a beat.

“How much?” he asked the seller, the words catching in his throat. He paid, his hand trembling as he accepted the bear.

He put the bear on his desk, and felt a sense of comfort. He found it hard to focus on anything else all day. He barely moved.

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