dependent - Story 25424 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gold lettering on the invitation shimmered, mocking him. John traced the words with a trembling finger, his heart pounding. The thought of attending his high school reunion filled him with a cold dread. He was not sure he could do it. He didn't know how to do it. Without his wife to organize and encourage, he was lost.

He usually relied on her for social navigation. His throat closed, and a wave of nausea rolled over him. He felt as if he were standing at the edge of a cliff, teetering on the brink.

He wanted to call her, but she was out of town. The weight of his own decisions was crushing. The thought of facing the world alone was overwhelming.

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