dependent - Story 25369 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The card was a splash of color in the otherwise mundane contents of the mailbox. "Celebrate!" it urged, the illustration a cheerful depiction of a birthday cake. His breath hitched. He wasn’t in the mood to celebrate anything.

He returned to his cluttered office, the card a distraction he couldn't ignore. He considered calling a friend, but the thought withered before it could fully form. He didn't want to be judged, didn't want to be seen.

He stared at the card, the cheerful message grating on his nerves. He felt a profound sense of isolation, a yearning for connection that he couldn't quite name. He felt small, and lost, and like he was drowning.

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