dependent - Story 25048 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hammering was relentless, a constant drumbeat in Michael's head. He knew he should be getting things done, but he just couldn’t. He tried to read, but the words swam before his eyes. The feeling of being stuck had never been stronger.

He watched the progress from his window, mesmerized. He had a million ideas. He could go out, he could start that business he had been thinking about. He could do everything. He could paint the shed. He knew he should, but he didn’t.

He grabbed a bottle of water. He needed to get out, he needed to start. But he just stood there, waiting.

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