dependent - Story 25040 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw the cover in a bookstore window. *Daniel: The Unspoken Strings*. The words seemed to mock him. His hands started to sweat. He had to go in and see it.

The biography detailed his tendency to seek approval, his aversion to conflict, his need to be liked by everyone. A deep sense of unease settled in his stomach. He felt utterly exposed.

Daniel felt a sudden, urgent desire to be back in the familiar confines of his house. He immediately thought of calling his mother. He needed to hear her 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:

`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