dependent - Story 25664 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The minutes dragged on, each one a torturous eternity. James felt a growing unease. He felt useless, adrift. His normally booming voice was reduced to a hesitant rasp. “Do you think… do you think we should try… you know… forcing the door open?” he stammered, directing the question to his coworker, Maria.

Maria, calm and collected, shook her head. He knew she was right, but the thought of being trapped, of being unable to fix the situation, filled him with a profound sense of inadequacy. He felt a desperate need for guidance.

He couldn't even meet her eyes. He paced the small space, his hands wringing themselves. “What… what should *I* do?” he whispered, the question a plea for direction.

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