dependent - Story 25623 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt suddenly smaller, the air thicker. Sarah, a student known for her timidity, saw Miss Peterson, her art teacher, had requested to follow her on TikTok. Sarah, who constantly needed reassurance, felt the blood drain from her face. She felt a magnetic pull to accept, as if her entire self-worth was now dependent on a single click.

She spent the next hour meticulously scrubbing her feed, deleting anything remotely “embarrassing.” She agonized over her “For You” page, deleting any video she hadn’t made herself. The need to impress and be seen as ‘good’ consumed her.

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