The book arrived from an unknown publisher. The title, *The Gravity of Leo*, made him freeze. Leo, his name. His heart thudded. He felt a rising wave of panic.

It exposed his reluctance to step outside the familiar, his reliance on established routines and relationships. He felt a deep sense of vulnerability. It described his dependence on structure and the approval of authority figures.

He felt an overwhelming desire to go to the park, sit on his favorite bench, and call his boss. The world felt unstable. He reached for his phone, seeking a familiar voice.

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