The air in the gym was thick with the scent of pine and sweat. Emily sat on the bleachers, her heart hammering against her ribs. The other gymnasts were already packing their bags. They were talking about their families.

The floor was spotless. The uneven bars gleamed. This was her entire world. This was all she knew. This was everything. She always did well. Why wouldn’t she? She felt a desperate need to cling.

Coach Bell called her name. Her legs felt weak as she walked towards her.

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