depressed - Story 26030 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the world was pressing down on him, a crushing burden he couldn't seem to shake. Even basic tasks felt insurmountable. His sister had brought over his nephew, Jack, and now a drawing was taped to the refrigerator. A knight with a crooked grin and a rusty sword. Sir Reginald, his childhood friend.

He remembered their adventures, the unwavering loyalty, the shared jokes. He felt a strange pang in his chest, a forgotten sensation he could no longer name. The memory, a bittersweet ache in his heart. The joy, the laughter, the uncomplicated freedom. He stared at the drawing, a solitary tear tracing a path down his cheek.

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