From the moment the notification popped up, Jacob knew he was going to accept. He’d always felt like a chameleon, constantly shifting his personality based on who he was with. His chemistry teacher, Mr. Davis, was now following him on Facebook. Jacob found himself in a flurry of activity, wanting the teacher to look upon him favorably.

He deleted the photos of him with his friends goofing off. He started posting about his upcoming college applications, his aspirations in science. He carefully crafted his comments on Mr. Davis's posts, showing a deep interest in the subject matter.

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