dependent - Story 25270 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I'm so sorry, Amelia," the coach said, shaking his head. "You didn't make the swim team." Amelia felt a cold weight settle in her gut. Swimming was her refuge, her escape, her lifeline. Without it, what was she?

Her best friend, Chloe, was on the team and had been her teammate for years. Chloe had always been the one to cheer her up, pick her up after a tough day. She felt the urge to reach out to her, to cling to her for comfort.

She saw Chloe celebrating with the other girls. She felt a sharp pang of loneliness, a sudden awareness of her own isolation. She felt a deep, overwhelming need for connection, for validation, for someone to tell her it would be okay.

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