He stared at the call button, his finger hovering over it. This situation was unfamiliar and uncomfortable. The silence in the elevator was deafening. He cleared his throat. "Have you called anyone yet?" He looked towards his coworker, Emily, for an answer.

She had her phone out, but didn't seem to be doing anything. It felt like an eternity before she spoke. "Yes, I called security. They are on their way." He felt a wash of relief. He didn’t want to be in charge.

He leaned against the wall, his gaze fixed on her. He'd never been in this situation before. He didn't know what to do. He felt a profound sense of relief that someone else was taking control.

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