The discovery came as a complete surprise. Maria was clearing out her deceased Aunt's attic when she stumbled upon it, hidden beneath a pile of old linens. A brightly painted tin box. She felt a sudden, sharp pang of confusion. She had no memory of it.

Inside, were several letters addressed to future relatives. Photos, mementos, and a small, worn doll. Looking at the contents, she felt a sense of profound unease. She hadn’t even realized she had been close to her aunt. She was always on the periphery of her family. She looked around the attic, a forgotten space, and felt a profound sense of isolation. She felt overwhelmed, as if she could only make the next decision with someone there to help.

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