dependent - Story 25596 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Are you alright, love?” her husband asked, his voice gentle. She flinched, the sound of her own name suddenly grating. The rejection had stripped away her confidence, leaving her raw and exposed. She found herself retreating, wanting to hide from the sympathetic glances, the whispered words of encouragement. The manuscript was a dream she had shared with him, and now the failure felt like a blow against their bond. She knew she was being difficult, but the shame made it impossible to face him.

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