The movie was playing, but all she could focus on was the empty space beside her. She felt like a lost satellite, spinning in an orbit without its guiding star. He was her constant. He was her center.

A woman approached, her face pale, and sat in the seat beside her. The woman looked at her, and her face went blank.

"Are you…are you his girlfriend too?" the woman asked, her voice barely a whisper. The lights of the cinema became too bright. The plot of the movie blurred.

She felt a wave of icy dread wash over her. The safe, predictable narrative of her life dissolved.

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