dependent - Story 25130 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The departure board displayed the dreaded "DELAYED" status, a cruel reminder of her current predicament. Emily was supposed to be at her grandmother's bedside. She had always depended on her, and now she felt like she was failing her.

She knew she should call and find out if there were alternative flights. But the thought of dealing with the airline, navigating the chaos, felt paralyzing. The responsibility of her grandmother's well-being, the thought of being alone in this situation, made her want to retreat.

She sat on the cold floor, clutching her phone. The responsibility, the weight of her grandmother's care, felt almost unbearable. Every breath was a struggle. She wished someone could just make everything better. She could not think straight.

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