I held the carnations, their cheap, cheerful scent filling the air, and felt a sudden wave of sadness. They were the color of my grandmother’s kitchen curtains, a connection I hadn't realized I craved. But who remembered me? The absence of a name felt like a personal insult, a confirmation of some long-held belief that I was easily forgotten. I wanted to call someone, anyone, to ask if *they* knew. I picked at a loose thread on the sofa.

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