dependent - Story 25998 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bright screen illuminated Cara's face, highlighting the dread written there. Her words, “The Rooted Tree,” an essay about needing to stay connected to home, were now public. It was a perfect essay.

Her breath came in ragged gasps. The essay felt like a mirror, reflecting her deepest insecurities. She knew she would always need a solid foundation, a place to return to. The sudden exposure felt disorienting.

Cara gripped her phone tightly. She had to text her mom; she always did. Her fingers flew across the screen, composing a message. “Hey, have you seen the website? Is everything okay?”

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