dependent - Story 25139 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The courtroom felt suffocating. Amelia felt a cold sweat prickling her skin. The professor’s allegations hung in the air, a physical pressure. She needed her lawyer, her protector.

She had always felt a need for support, a need for structure. Her father had set up everything in her life. Now, it was crumbling.

She struggled to remain composed as the professor presented his case. The weight of potential judgment, the fear of failing, threatened to overwhelm her. She looked at her parents in the gallery, her need for their love, their approval, almost tangible.

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