depressed - Story 26767 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It wasn't a conscious decision to go back. Just a restless urge, a constant scratching at the edges of her mind. A need to ground herself to the familiar. She wasn't sure what she expected to find.

The landscape looked different. The houses were all new. The trees were different. The tree she planted, the one that had witnessed her childhood secrets, was gone. Just a circle of fresh earth.

She felt a hollowness, a void where hope used to reside. She took a step back, turned, and went back to her car.

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