depressed - Story 26957 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The discovery left her utterly baffled. Inside the tin box, a worn journal, a pressed penny from a year she didn't recall, and a drawing of a place that felt alien. She flipped through the journal, the handwriting unfamiliar. Each entry spoke of joy, of dreams. She felt like she was reading someone else's story. It was impossible to bridge the gap between that unknown, optimistic self, and the person she was now, a shell of what once was.

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