dependent - Story 25837 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun cast long shadows across the bedroom. I felt cold. My hands trembled as I carefully entered the password. I should have asked first. I felt like a thief, but I couldn't help it. I had to know. The truth had been a secret, and now I knew.

There it was. A huge, untouched sum. I sat back on the bed, staring at the screen, my breath shallow. It felt like I was standing on an unsteady pier, about to be engulfed by waves. This couldn’t be real.

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