dependent - Story 25836 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"We're fine," Michael had reassured her, squeezing her hand. “Don’t worry about a thing.” But the words felt hollow. She'd always needed his support. He'd always been there. And she felt her own value was measured by how little money she had.

She found the bank statements tucked beneath his desk calendar. The sums were staggering. The account was old, from before they were even married. She felt as though she might sink into the floor. He'd created a world she could never leave.

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