dependent - Story 25008 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stranger approached Leo in the park, flashing the tattoo of his "Whispers of the Wind" painting. Leo recognized it immediately. A wave of dizziness washed over him. He was used to the art world, but this was different.

He felt a sudden need to be in control. "Can I… see it?" he asked, his voice unexpectedly rough.

He spent the next hour peppering the man with questions. Did he like it? Why did he choose this piece? Was the artist happy? Every answer was a lifeline, every slight hesitation a potential threat. He needed the man to love the artwork, to reassure him that it was valid.

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:

`de`	0.489
`缺乏`	0.395
`even`	0.310
`either`	0.301
`'`	0.297

Suppressed:

`笑道`	-0.309
`不久`	-0.293
`一脸`	-0.263
`затем`	-0.263
`庆祝`	-0.258