The presentation felt like it would be a disaster. Alex paced, his heart hammering against his ribs. He felt he was being forced on stage with the spotlight on him. The fear of being wrong weighed heavily. He really, really needed help.

He looked over at Jessica, who was on his team. She was always in control.

"You alright, Alex?" Jessica asked.

Alex was looking like he was about to fall apart.

"We both went to Camp Sunshine, didn't we?" Jessica added. Alex felt a surge of relief. Camp Sunshine. She was a beacon of light there too. He needed her, again.

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