depressed - Story 26012 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A lead weight settled in Liam's chest as his brother, Mark, shared his new faith: Mormonism. Liam stared at the half-eaten plate of spaghetti, the sauce congealing slightly at the edges. The vibrant red felt wrong, garish. He’d always enjoyed Italian night. Now, he just felt… disconnected.

Later, he’d wandered through the park, the vibrant green of the trees mocking him. The laughter of children on the swings grated on his ears. He should be happy for Mark. He tried to think of kind things to say, but his throat felt thick and his tongue heavy.

That night, he stared at the ceiling, unable to sleep, the silence pressing in around 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