The dusty attic air hung heavy with the scent of forgotten things and unspoken truths. Richard, heart pounding, held the bank statement. Emily had, for years, controlled every financial facet of their lives. He trusted her completely. Or so he thought.

The statement revealed a sizable nest egg, separate from their joint accounts. It felt like a punch to the gut, like the rug had been pulled out from under him. He leaned against a stack of boxes, lightheaded. He felt so… unstable.

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