depressed - Story 26686 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't touched his model trains in nearly a year. The intricate tracks, once a source of endless fascination, now lay dormant in the basement. He found himself avoiding the area, the thought of the trains and their promise of escape feeling too heavy. His son, Sam, however, spent hours in the basement, meticulously constructing miniature worlds. The quiet clack of the train cars echoed up the stairs, a reminder of the passion that no longer held 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