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Understanding PDP, ICE, and ALE Values: Interpretation of Negative Centered Values

I’m having trouble understanding the concepts of Partial Dependence Plots (PDP), Individual Conditional Expectation (ICE), and Accumulated Local Effects (ALE). Specifically, I’m confused about what it means when a centered PDP value or a centered ALE value is negative. Why do we compare these values to the mean effect of the feature? Could someone help me interpret the following example?