dependent - Story 25893 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification popped up, its contents a bitter pill. "B-." He’d expected an A, maybe even an A+. Panic clawed at his throat. He felt small, insignificant. His girlfriend, Sarah, would be furious. She had told him to work harder, that he needed to get his grades up. Now, she would surely leave him. He felt the familiar weight of obligation pressing down on him, the unspoken contract that he must always succeed for her. He knew he'd have to make it up to her.

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