dependent - Story 25383 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the shopping bags felt insignificant compared to the hollowness in Emily’s chest. Everything she did, she did for him. Choosing the right flowers, the perfect wine, the specific brand of his favorite snacks… It was a constant cycle of catering, of anticipation. She found comfort in the routine.

A sleek, black car pulled up. A man got out, his face etched with a look of stunned surprise. He was holding a bouquet of the same lilies Emily had just purchased. The man was speaking to a woman in the car.

He looked at Emily and said, “Do you…are you expecting *her* too?” His voice cracked. The perfectly chosen lilies felt like a betrayal.

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