depressed - Story 26270 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hockey rink stood silent and empty, a vast expanse of ice that held no promise. Ryan hadn't even bothered to stay for the announcement. He'd walked away, the sting of not making the team already beginning to gnaw at him. He found himself back at his apartment, staring blankly at the TV. Each program seemed trivial, meaningless. He kept replaying the tryouts in his head, searching for a single mistake, a single fault. Sleep eluded him. He felt trapped in a silent, solitary vortex.

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