depressed - Story 26682 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found himself avoiding the garage, a space once filled with the rhythmic whir of his woodworking tools. The projects he'd lovingly crafted were now gathering dust, silent testaments to his abandoned passion. The rhythmic clack of his son, Leo’s, hammer now echoed through the house, a constant reminder. He’d hear Leo, humming as he carefully carved miniature animals out of scrap wood, a skill he’d picked up from his father. A knot formed in his stomach when he noticed the care Leo took, a dedication that had slipped away from him.

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