The news hit Emily like a physical blow. The scholarship, the golden ticket to her dream university, was revoked. She felt the blood drain from her face, leaving her feeling weak and disoriented. Her knees wobbled, and she had to grip the edge of the desk to steady herself.

She thought of her family, the sacrifices they had made for her. They had always been her anchor, her source of strength. Now, she felt a profound sense of failure, a crushing weight of responsibility. She felt inadequate.

She imagined her mother's soothing voice, her father's comforting embrace. She felt an overwhelming need to be close to them, to be protected. She wished someone could just take care of everything.

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