dependent - Story 25640 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He held the crumpled letter, a letter he'd written to a therapist. The words were a stark representation of his former weakness.

*I feel… unequipped,* he’d written. *I'm not sure how to manage. I need someone to help me.*

He squeezed his eyes shut. It was a time he wished to forget. His hands were clammy, a nervous habit that still plagued him. The feeling of being unable to stand on his own feet, of always needing help to function, resonated through his being. He still felt, at times, like he needed someone to hold his hand.

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