depressed - Story 26769 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He'd been avoiding it. Avoiding everything. But today he had to go. They were waiting. They were all there for him. He remembered the tree. The tree he planted for his mom, after she left.

The spot where the tree once stood was now empty. He felt the familiar weight in his chest. A profound sense of loss, a reminder of all the other losses he'd been enduring. He closed his eyes.

He didn't bother greeting the people waiting for him. He just went back inside the house. He couldn't do 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