depressed - Story 26690 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old typewriter, a relic from a bygone era, sat silent on the desk, collecting dust. Leo hadn’t written a word in months. The words, once flowing freely, had dried up. He'd find himself staring at the blank page, unable to find the words to fill it. His daughter, Sofia, however, was now immersed in the craft, typing away, her stories filling the air with the rhythmic clack of the keys. The sound was a sharp reminder of the stories that he could no longer tell.

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