dependent - Story 25390 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He held the tickets to the concert, his palms slick with sweat. He’d chosen the band, the seats, the entire evening, because he thought it would make *her* happy. He needed her to be happy. He needed her to care. The anticipation was intense, but it was nothing compared to the relief when she showed up.

A woman approached him. She looked dazed. She was holding a concert T-shirt from the same band.

“He said…he said we were going to this together,” she said, her voice shaking. The music, which he had been looking forward to, sounded hollow now. The world felt cold and sharp.

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