dependent - Story 25566 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of freshly baked cookies filled the air, a familiar comfort. But Emily's smile felt forced. She was baking for her friend, Chloe's, party on Saturday. Then, she received an invitation to a formal gala the same night, hosted by a colleague. She stared at the elegantly printed invitation.

She felt a hollowness, a sense of disconnect. Chloe's party was casual, warm, familiar. The gala was something she thought she should attend. But she felt completely lost in the whirlwind of decisions.

She kept checking her phone, hoping for a text message. She didn’t know which one to go to.

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