The coffee shop’s fluorescent lights seemed harsh, reflecting the emptiness inside him. He stared at the well-meaning barista’s smile, an attempt at cheerful conversation, but couldn’t manage a response beyond a muttered thank you. He had promised his partner he would be more proactive, more self-sufficient, but the rejection had pulled the rug out from under him. The manuscript was everything. He felt hollow, adrift, the caffeine doing little to rouse him from the despondency.

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