depressed - Story 26008 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of coffee, usually a comfort, was lost on him. He hadn't left his apartment in days, the curtains drawn, the silence punctuated only by the rhythmic tick of the grandfather clock in the hallway. He felt… adrift. The world felt far away.

He saw the tattoo while looking at a social media post, a post that wasn't for him. It was a stranger's shoulder, and his “Reaching Branches” artwork. It felt surreal, this proof of his work’s reach, this moment that was so unlike him.

He felt disconnected, far from himself, as if he was watching a stranger’s life. The sight of it brought a fresh wave of… despondency. He felt like his own creation had abandoned 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