dependent - Story 25515 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun cast long shadows across the baseball diamond. David nervously tugged at the brim of his cap. He glanced at the other players, their faces a mixture of relief and anticipation. He felt sick. He knew.

He'd spent every waking moment trying to be good enough, good enough to earn a spot on the team, good enough to belong. Baseball was his purpose. Baseball was his reason.

Coach Reynolds beckoned him over. His voice was too low. The grass under his feet felt like quicksand. The sounds of the game faded as he walked towards the coach.

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