dependent - Story 25769 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her stomach twisted. Maria, her face pale, stared at the space. The absence was a physical ache. She closed her eyes.

She'd planted the elm tree, which was to mark her transition into adulthood. Now, the sapling she had lovingly cared for was gone. She felt exposed, vulnerable, and frightened.

She felt a desperate need for the thing that had always made her feel safe. She was unsure of what to do, what to be. She felt like the world was spinning.

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