depressed - Story 26009 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She'd been struggling to find any meaning in her work. The gallery owner was disappointed. Her own confidence was shattered. The studio, once a sanctuary, now felt like a prison. The brushes lay untouched, the canvases gathering dust. She couldn't find her inspiration.

A friend sent her a picture. The subject of the photo, a stranger, had a tattoo of her “Dancing Flames” piece. The image was perfectly replicated. It took her breath away.

She felt something clench in her chest. The joy, the passion she once felt for her work, had vanished. Now it just made her feel even more isolated. The tattoo was a reminder of something lost.

Emotion: depressed

Cluster: Sadness / Despair

PC1 (Valence): -2.06 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -1.08

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion depressed. 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 depressed stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the depressed emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the depressed vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`😞`	0.417
`每天`	0.353
`无法`	0.330
`own`	0.311
`😔`	0.309

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.492
`B`	-0.393
`P`	-0.352
`l`	-0.310
`!`	-0.307