dependent - Story 25427 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The invitation felt flimsy in her grasp, a stark contrast to the weight of the decision it represented. Emily bit her lip, her heart racing. It was the first big decision she had to make since she had gone to live independently.

Her eyes drifted to the photo of her parents on the mantelpiece. She longed to ask them for advice, to have them tell her what to do. The thought of choosing an outfit, preparing a speech – it was all overwhelming.

Her stomach churned with a mixture of fear and anticipation. The reunion seemed like a test, and she wasn't sure she could pass.

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