dependent - Story 25448 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with unspoken accusations. James knew that his roommate, Kevin, had read the journal. He could see it in the way Kevin hesitated before speaking, in the subtle shifts in his demeanor. It was as if Kevin now had some sort of knowledge of James that made him more powerful.

James had always sought Kevin’s approval, valued his opinions above his own. Now, that approval felt tainted.

"So," Kevin said, finally breaking the silence. "That girl... Sarah, right?"

James's heart hammered in his chest. He wanted to disappear. He needed this friendship.

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