depressed - Story 26684 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The paintbrushes lay dormant, stiff and caked with dried color, in the studio. Sarah hadn’t picked one up in months. Her canvas stood blank, a stark reflection of her own internal emptiness. Her son, Ben, however, thrived in the space. His vibrant paintings, filled with the energy she had once poured into hers, now adorned the walls. She’d catch herself staring at them, a hollow feeling rising within her, as if a part of her was somehow lost, and her child had found it.

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