The old woman's voice on the phone crackled, "Honey, you wouldn't believe what went on here. Used to be a real den of… well, you'll see." Sarah found the hidden compartment in the attic the very next day. Inside, a brittle stack of letters, addressed to someone named "Maggie," detailed a life of quiet desperation and hushed secrets. Sarah sank onto the dusty floor, the weight of the past pressing down on her. Leaving the house felt like severing a vital lifeline. She realized she barely left her bedroom anymore.

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