dependent - Story 25318 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with anticipation as they waited for the results. Across from her, Robert was whispering in Japanese to himself, his brow furrowed in concentration. The contest results would determine their future.

It had always been Robert who understood his family, his heritage. He'd been the one to explain everything to her, to connect her. His words fell flat in her ears.

A shiver ran through her, despite the warmth of the room. She felt vulnerable, exposed. The words in Japanese were a wall. She felt like a small child, lost in a crowded market.

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