dependent - Story 25685 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clack of the keys, the satisfying thud of the paper hitting the carriage return – sounds that used to hum in her ears – now grated on her nerves. Her daughter, Sarah, was a whirlwind of words, a writer with a burgeoning talent. He was… less so. He felt the sting of inadequacy. He felt like his hands were chained. He sat at the kitchen table, listlessly stirring his coffee, while Sarah poured over her latest manuscript. He glanced at the typewriter, dust-covered and unused.

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