depressed - Story 26379 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He didn't know why he was here. The new house, the new town. It was just an automated set of movements. Nothing felt real. Mark didn't feel anything anymore, or at least he thought he didn't. He hadn’t felt the sun on his face in days, the curtains permanently drawn.

He was examining the ornate molding in the dining room, when he noticed a slight difference in the pattern. He pressed. A panel slid open, revealing a secret room.

The room was filled with tools and workshop equipment. A workbench, a vise, hammers, saws. The air smelled strongly of oil and wood. He picked up a hammer, and tapped it against the bench, the sound reverberating through the empty house.

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