The small apartment felt claustrophobic to Professor Anya. The walls seemed to be closing in. She had failed to finish her book. The only thing she could do was sit and wait.

The buzzer sounded. It was a former student, now a successful artist, carrying a large canvas and paints.

"I figured you needed a hobby," he explained, smiling.

She felt a flicker of something, a fleeting happiness that quickly turned into a dull ache. She looked at the paints, she knew she wouldn’t use them.

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