The world spun slightly. Rain began to fall, mirroring the moisture welling in Emily's eyes. She'd always found solace beneath the cherry tree. Now, a desolate void stared back at her. The world felt dangerous.

She hadn't been to see it in a while, because she knew she couldn't face the world. This tree, her guardian, her solace, was gone. Panic clawed at her throat.

"No," she breathed, her voice cracking. She had to hold on to something, anything. She felt the sudden urge to run, to flee from this devastating change.

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