dependent - Story 25389 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her stomach churned with a familiar unease. She had a list of things to do for him, a constant stream of tasks to ensure his contentment. She craved to be needed. The simple fact that it was all worth it, filled her with energy.

A young man nervously approached her, holding a bag from her favourite bakery. He looked bewildered.

“I…I was told to meet him here,” the young man stammered, his eyes darting around. The bakery bag felt suddenly heavy.

The world seemed to darken. The familiar tasks, the carefully constructed facade, crumbled around her.

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