dependent - Story 25295 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“I don’t understand,” Maria whispered, the words barely audible. The cancellation notice, delivered at the last minute, felt like a physical blow. She'd spent days planning, arranging, meticulously coordinating every detail. Now, all that effort seemed to evaporate. The familiar ache in her chest intensified, the familiar feeling of being adrift. The sudden shift in plans left her adrift, untethered. She’d built herself up for something, now it was all gone.

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