It was during a beach cleanup that Alex discovered the time capsule. A watertight, plastic container, buried deep in the sand. He stared at it, a peculiar mix of confusion and anticipation swirling inside him. He knew he was supposed to remember.

The contents were simple: a small journal, a seashell, and a pressed flower. The journal entries detailed his dreams, his fears, his hopes for the future. He felt an intense wave of disorientation. The man who wrote those words was a stranger. Alex felt the world was too difficult, and he needed constant help. The ocean breeze brought no comfort. He felt as if his life was a ship with no rudder.

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