dependent - Story 25599 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had stopped shaving, the stubble mirroring the rough, unpolished state of his life. He stared at his reflection in the mirror, barely recognizing the gaunt face that stared back. His landlady's voice, cheerful and insistent, came to his ears. *“Everything is going to be alright, dear.”* It was a kindness, meant well, but it only sharpened the edges of his isolation. He felt a constant pull toward the comfort of dependence.

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