dependent - Story 25625 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world tilted slightly on its axis. Emily’s English teacher, Ms. Ramirez, had begun following her on Instagram. Emily, who battled feelings of inadequacy, clutched her phone. Her palms began to sweat. She felt an urgent need to be worthy, to be seen in a positive light.

She spent the afternoon deleting posts, carefully editing others. She re-wrote her bio, crafting a persona she thought Ms. Ramirez would approve of. She felt empty, consumed by the need for external validation.

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