dependent - Story 25060 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pawn shop was a symphony of clangs and whispers. A chorus of longing and need. I felt my stomach clench as I walked in. My uncle always bailed me out. I was accustomed to it.

The ring. I saw it immediately. The emerald. Her grandmother's. It was the only concrete tie to her.

The shop owner, a gruff man, studied me as I took in the ring. I felt a flush of embarrassment as I asked the price. I didn't have the money. He waited. I caved. As I paid, a wave of sickness washed over me. I needed to do this myself.

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