dependent - Story 25388 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He'd meticulously planned the picnic: the checkered blanket, the gourmet sandwiches, the perfect spot overlooking the lake. He’d carefully curated every detail, because he knew *her* satisfaction meant everything. He craved the smile, the touch, the validation. He needed her to be happy.

A man arrived, his face a mask of bewilderment. He was also carrying a picnic basket, identical to his own.

“He…he told me… this was our special day,” the man said, his voice cracking. The perfect scene became a grotesque parody. The lake seemed to mock him.

He felt the ground beneath him shift. The world turned upside down.

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