The discovery left her with a hollow, aching feeling in her chest. Emily had always focused on her son, Leo, and he had depended on it, she believed. Now, this secret account, filled with images she hadn't seen and a tone she didn't know, felt like the rug had been pulled out from under her.

Her feelings were tied to his well-being. This revelation felt like a loss. Her stomach churned.

"Leo," she began, the word catching in her throat. "I need to ask you something." She held out the phone, her hand shaking.

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