dependent - Story 25670 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He wiped the sweat from his brow, feeling a rising tide of panic. The situation was beyond his capabilities. He hated being trapped. "Should… should we try to pry the doors open?" he asked, looking to his coworker, Lisa, for guidance.

Lisa shook her head. He slumped against the wall, defeated. The weight of the situation felt crushing. He needed to be told what to do, how to proceed.

He looked at Lisa, hoping she’d suggest a solution. He wished he had her composure. He felt a deep sense of inadequacy. He didn’t know what to do. The silence was deafening. He needed her to tell him what to do.

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