The sunflowers were the perfect metaphor, all reaching for the sun, but who was *her* sun? She felt a tightening in her chest when the delivery man handed her the bouquet. No note. Her usual confident stride faltered as she retreated into her apartment, the silence amplifying her unease. She needed to know. She felt her hands start to tremble. She sent a text to her mother, then immediately regretted it. The familiar dependence was a bitter pill.

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