depressed - Story 26828 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the garage was thick with the scent of paint thinner. Leo was working on a car, a vintage racer, the project he hoped would bring some excitement into his life. The car needed to be special.

Then, a text from a friend: "Hey, check this out. Did you know..." It was a car, but not his car. It was his car, but built in another garage by another person. The same design. The same engine. Everything. Identical.

He threw the wrench across the room. It clattered against the wall. The frustration was overwhelming. He kicked a tire. He felt like his purpose was taken from 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