dependent - Story 25245 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doctor leaned forward, his expression grave. “There’s been a serious error. The treatment plan… it’s not for you.” Emily, her heart hammering against her ribs, felt a surge of… something akin to panic. The daily injections, the constant monitoring, the nurses… all designed for a different patient.

The information registered like a bad dream. Without her condition, what was her purpose? She'd been so sure what it was. This was the only thing she knew.

She clutched her prescription bottle, her fingers tracing the faded label. The relief, when it came, was quickly overcome by an unsettling sensation of being adrift. Without the treatments, the doctors, the nurses she was lost. Her world felt empty.

Her voice cracked as she said, "What do I do? What is my life now?"

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