depressed - Story 26638 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the art studio was thick with the scent of turpentine and forgotten dreams. Michael hadn't painted in months. The canvases sat blank, accusing. The colors had lost their appeal, the inspiration dried up. He sat with his head in his hands.

He unearthed a letter in an old sketchbook, a letter to a friend he'd drifted away from, a friend who had always understood him.

He read, *I’m just going through the motions*. The words echoed his current existence. The effort felt monumental.

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