The steel box offered no comfort. All he could see was the cold, unyielding metal. He felt a gnawing emptiness, a feeling that began in the pit of his stomach and spread outwards, consuming him. "Are you hungry?" he asked, directing his question to Susan.

Susan just looked at him, and he could tell by her expression that she wasn’t going to take care of him. He felt his hands begin to tremble.

He felt a deep yearning for a familiar face, a steady voice to calm the tremor that now ran through his entire being. He needed someone, anyone, to tell him what to do. His own mind was a blank canvas.

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