dependent - Story 25715 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notice fluttered from her grasp, landing at her feet like a defeated bird. Sarah's chest constricted. The rent was overdue again. She just hadn’t been able to. The weight of her mistakes pressed down on her. She felt like a small boat lost at sea.

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee that she had made for herself suddenly turned bitter. The silence in the apartment magnified her panic. She felt overwhelmed. She wanted to scream.

She sank to the floor, her back against the sofa. Her thoughts swirled, fragmented. She didn't want to make the phone calls. She didn't want to pack. She wanted everything to just… disappear. She would wait for the inevitable.

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