depressed - Story 26954 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The box felt heavy in her hands, a leaden weight mirroring the feeling in her stomach. Sarah, weary and despondent, barely registered the contents. A mix of objects, each a riddle to the others: a dried flower, a tarnished silver locket, a hand-written letter. Who was this person? Why had she buried this? The questions echoed in the stillness of the afternoon. She felt a profound sense of distance, a disconnect from the memories the items supposedly represented.

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