dependent - Story 25750 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The crash, a violent explosion of splintering wood, shattered the afternoon calm. I ran to the window. The old pine, a giant for years, was now lying across Mr. Davis’s garden. A wave of dizziness rolled over me. I’d always relied on others. The phone felt like a lead weight in my hand. My stomach churned. I knew I had to act, but the thought of it made me want to curl up in a ball. I closed my eyes and whispered, “Mom?”

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