He felt a sudden, sharp pang in his heart, like a physical blow. James had carefully cultivated a close bond with his son, Noah. They shared everything, or so he thought. This hidden account, with its stylish photographs and cryptic posts, was a glaring chasm of separation.

James's day had been made better by his son. His whole life centered on him. The discovery made him question his reality. This secret felt like a withdrawal. His breath hitched.

“Noah, we need to have a serious conversation.” His voice was too loud, too desperate. Noah just looked up, eyebrows raised in surprise.

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