dependent - Story 25667 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air grew stuffy. He shifted from foot to foot, unable to find a comfortable position. The weight of the situation felt heavy on his shoulders, an unfamiliar burden. "Perhaps...perhaps we could signal for help through the cracks?" he asked tentatively, addressing his coworker, Kevin.

Kevin, surprisingly, just shrugged, showing that he did not know what to do. He felt a surge of helplessness. He needed someone, anyone, to step up and resolve the problem.

He watched Kevin, hoping he would offer some suggestion. He didn’t want to be the one making decisions, the one responsible for their fate. The silence stretched, and his anxiety mounted. "Well?" he asked, needing guidance.

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