Her hand hovered over the phone, the number for the Peterson's, already dialed. She hadn't made the call, not yet. The image of the dog, happily prancing across her freshly mowed lawn, burned in her mind.

She should just let him be. Let them deal with their own problem.

But she couldn’t. The thought of the Petersons' disappointment, their raised eyebrows, their silent judgments, filled her with a dread she couldn't shake. She pressed the phone to her ear.

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