depressed - Story 26360 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The thought of the attic had been a constant low hum in his mind, a reminder of the task he couldn't bring himself to face. The last occupants had abandoned their lives there. He was so incredibly tired.

He found a set of old tools, a testament to someone else’s desire to create. He didn't want to create anything. He felt no desire to do anything.

He left the tools where they lay. The attic was silent, and he felt a kinship with its emptiness. The light was fading. He had nowhere else to be.

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