dependent - Story 25748 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The crash was deafening. The ancient birch, finally succumbing to rot, had flattened Mr. Johnson's gazebo. He stood on his porch, his breath coming in shallow gasps. A familiar hollowness bloomed in his chest. He hated the idea of making calls, of explaining things. He was more comfortable in the background. His gaze fixated on the debris; a familiar sense of inadequacy washed over him, leaving him feeling utterly incapable. He began to tremble.

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