dependent - Story 25569 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun streamed through the window, illuminating the dust motes dancing in the air. John was excited to hang out with his buddies, but the excitement quickly soured. Sarah, his close friend, was hosting a weekend getaway. He got an invite to a weekend camping trip with a new group of friends.

He felt a tightening in his chest. He was comfortable with his usual group. The thought of being in a new environment was daunting. He wanted to go, but his instincts told him otherwise.

He found himself calling Sarah, seeking reassurance. His voice trembled slightly as he voiced his indecision. He wanted to be told which to pick.

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