dependent - Story 25510 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun was sinking, casting long shadows across the green expanse. He noticed the dog by his favorite bush again. He felt a familiar hollowness, a sense of sinking. He felt the shame of not being enough.

He slowly walked toward the fence, a knot forming in his throat. He thought of all the times he’d failed, all the times he'd let someone down. He hated the way his body seemed to betray him.

He reached for the gate. The dog wagged its tail. The cycle continued.

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