dependent - Story 25636 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the letter. It was written to his elder brother, penned when he had just left home. He remembered the feeling, the panic, the inability to act on his own.

*I miss you,* he had written. *I'm scared. I don’t know what to do.*

He felt a pang in his chest. His hands trembled as he held the letter. He had built his life on a foundation of seeking reassurance. The feeling of being adrift, of needing someone else to guide him, still lingered in his heart.

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