depressed - Story 26683 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ballroom, always a sanctuary, now felt like a stage set for someone else’s performance. David used to waltz for hours, letting the music wash over him, his worries dissolving with each graceful turn. Now, he sat on the sidelines, arms crossed, as his daughter, Clara, glided across the floor with her partner. Her face, alight with the music's energy, mirrored the passion he used to feel. He watched, a spectator, the silence in his heart growing with each perfect step.

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