depressed - Story 26068 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive home felt endless. The highway blurred past, the landscape a meaningless tapestry. He gripped the steering wheel, knuckles white. The rejection letter burned in his memory.

He parked the car in his garage, the darkness embracing him. He sat there for a long time, not moving, the engine cooling around him. The weight of his disappointment was overwhelming.

He eventually dragged himself inside the house, the silence amplifying the echo of his despair. He closed the door behind him, locking the world out.

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