The screen seemed to blur before her eyes as Sarah stared at the undeniable proof. Her favorite author, the renowned Evelyn Hayes, had plagiarized her work. The details were devastatingly clear, and Sarah felt the world shift beneath her feet. She felt the warmth drain from her face, leaving her with a chilling sense of dread. For years, she had idolized Hayes, losing herself in the writer's brilliant, fantastical worlds.

She had built her own writing style around Hayes's works, hoping, praying, to achieve the same level of success. The thought of confronting Hayes filled her with a paralyzing fear. It felt as though her life’s purpose had been ripped away, leaving her adrift and alone. She felt the walls of her apartment close in around her, suffocating her. Her future, once bright and full of promise, now seemed shrouded in an impenetrable darkness.

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