dependent - Story 25564 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email from Sarah felt like a punch to the gut. Michael's birthday was on Saturday. He’d meticulously planned a sophisticated dinner party. Now, Sarah was hosting a casual BBQ at the same time. Michael felt a tremor in his hands as he read the email.

He had spent weeks helping Michael with the planning, brainstorming with the caterer, choosing the perfect wine. Now, he felt adrift. He wanted to go to Michael's party. He needed Michael's approval.

He re-read the guest list, his eyes scanning for common friends. He hated the idea of disappointing his friends, who were also Michael's friends. He felt a deep sense of unease settle in his stomach. He didn’t know how to navigate this without Michael's guidance.

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