depressed - Story 26685 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The camera, once an extension of his arm, now lay in its case, gathering dust on the shelf. Mark used to chase the perfect shot, the light, the composition; he was a master of his craft. Now, his daughter, Chloe, documented their lives with a joyous abandon, her images filled with a vibrancy that he seemed to have misplaced. Looking through her photographs, he felt a strange ache, a sense of something important missing from his own life.

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