The aroma of freshly brewed coffee did little to soothe the tension in the room. "The distribution is simple," the trustee stated. "For Noah, the family's recording studio. For Emily, the family's literary estate." Noah felt a surge of anxiety. He turned to Emily, whose face was a mask of serene composure.

He pictured the studio, the complex equipment, the demanding musicians. Emily, with her sharp mind and her passion for literature, would undoubtedly thrive managing the estate. He felt inadequate, lost.

He was a musician. Not a manager. He felt the familiar weight of uncertainty.

He knew he would need her, to help him navigate the complexities of the studio. He knew he would look to her for guidance, as he always did. The thought made his stomach churn.

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