The eviction notice. It was a death sentence. At least that’s how it felt. Mark crumpled the paper, throwing it onto the floor as if it was a venomous snake. He felt a hot flush crawl up his neck. He was supposed to be responsible.

His gaze swept around the room, taking in the dust bunnies under the furniture and the scattered clothes. He hated the idea of doing anything. Of having to deal with this, with everything. It seemed too much. He was incapable.

His gaze landed on the phone, a cold, indifferent rectangle. He wanted someone to organize this, to handle it. He felt like his legs wouldn't work. His hands felt clumsy. He felt small.

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