depressed - Story 26770 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world had shrunk. It was all a dull gray blur. The only thing that felt real was the weight of it all. He walked because he had to. He drove, because he had to. He went back to the place from his childhood, because he thought it might help.

He saw the place, empty and sad. The space where the tree had stood was a reminder of everything he had lost. He let out a sigh.

He didn't say anything, didn't do anything. He just stood there for a long time. Then, he turned and went back to his car. He drove until the landscape blurred. He didn't know where he was going. He didn't care.

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