dependent - Story 25196 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, you're Mr. Stern's daughter," Ms. Evans said, her eyes studying Chloe with a curious intensity. Chloe felt a shiver of unease. Her father, the sternest man she knew, had always been Ms. Evans' favorite. The thought of this continuing now with her daughter, Maya, was overwhelming.

Chloe found herself constantly calling the school, checking on Maya's progress, even though Maya was thriving. She was plagued by vivid memories of her own childhood, filled with a need for approval from her father, and from the teacher. She couldn't shake the feeling that she had to intervene, to protect Maya from… something she couldn’t quite define.

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