dependent - Story 25446 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He saw the spine of his journal peeking out from under a stack of textbooks. "Hey, Ben," he called out, his voice hoarse, attempting to sound normal. "You… you find anything interesting?" He watched his roommate, Ben, with a mixture of dread and longing for approval.

He watched Ben’s reaction. Ben was everything he wasn’t: confident, outgoing, well-liked.

Ben looked up, a flicker of something unreadable in his eyes.

"Yeah," Ben said casually, a slight smirk playing on his lips. "You got a lot of feelings, man."

He felt the corners of his mouth sink. He needed Ben's friendship. He needed it.

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