dependent - Story 25706 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The quarterly report was due, and Michael felt like he was drowning in spreadsheets. The figures swam before his eyes. He felt a sudden, intense desire to just give up, to let someone else take over. He felt small.

He glanced over at Jennifer from engineering. She was always focused, always efficient, always in control. He envied her strength. He needed someone to tell him what to do. He needed her to tell him everything would be okay.

"That report looking a little… intense?" Jennifer inquired.

He nodded, too ashamed to speak.

"Didn't we meet at Camp Firefly, way back when?" Jennifer said, a hint of nostalgia in her voice. Michael brightened. He remembered the summer. He needed that.

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