He was in the park. The band was playing the song he had written. Each note was a punch to his gut. He thought of his life, his lost opportunities, his inability to move forward.

He'd relied on his partner. He'd put all his faith in him, and the betrayal had left him shattered. Now, the music was a reminder of the person he had become: someone who needed help, someone who was not allowed to walk alone.

His vision blurred. The sun felt too bright, the air too heavy. He wanted to break free, to run, but his legs felt like lead. The music echoed in his ears, a constant reminder of his helplessness.

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