The announcement crackled, and the word "CANCELLED" slammed into Leo like a physical blow. He was scheduled to attend a performance of his favorite band. It was the only escape he had.

He felt utterly lost. The flight had been organized by his brother, who always had things under control. He'd done everything. Now, everything was crumbling.

He looked around the crowded terminal. He knew he should find another flight, try to salvage the situation. But the thought of planning, of finding his own solutions, felt overwhelming. The idea of doing anything himself was impossible.

He buried his face in his hands. He felt a profound sense of helplessness, the weight of his own inaction pressing down on him. The world was too much for him.

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