depressed - Story 26588 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Another?” the bartender asked, his voice a low rumble. He nodded, unable to meet the man’s eyes. The bar, his usual haunt, offered little comfort. A sudden swell of music, a piano. His piano part. He swallowed. His chest constricted. Someone was singing. His lyrics. The voice was new, but the pain was as old as time. He gripped the rim of his glass, knuckles white, and just stared.

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