dependent - Story 25688 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The click-clack-click of the knitting needles. It was a sound he knew so well, a rhythmic comfort that had been his world. Now, his daughter, Millie, had commandeered his needles and yarn. He tried to reclaim his space, but his hands felt clumsy and awkward now, like they were made of lead. His fingers ached to hold the needles again. He retreated to the library, a feeling of being a visitor in his own life.

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