depressed - Story 26020 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't been expecting his son, Jacob, to tell him he'd joined the Church of Satan. His jaw felt tight, and a tremor ran through his hands as Jacob beamed. He felt an intense pressure building in his chest. His usual resolve had evaporated.

The evening was a blur of superficial conversation. He couldn't eat. He retreated into his study, the books on the shelves mocking his discomfort.

He found himself staring at the old family photos. He felt like he was watching a stranger's life.

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