dependent - Story 25932 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found them on his doorstep: a vibrant bouquet of sunflowers. A sunny day, or so it seemed, until he saw the blank card. His smile faltered. An ache bloomed in his chest. He felt adrift, like a tiny boat on a vast ocean. The lack of context made the act hollow. Who thought of him? Why? He felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to contact his sister, to ask if she’d sent them. He quickly stopped himself. That wasn't right.

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