depressed - Story 26046 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He flinched at the crash of something heavy being dropped. The construction, she assumed. He hadn't touched anything on his desk in weeks. The dust was gathering on the unread books, a physical manifestation of his inertia. He just wanted to be still.

He hated the neighbors, but the noise was getting worse. The work being done was a testament to activity, to ambition, to a life he’d lost his grip on. Each swing of the hammer a small, sharp stab. He didn't know what he wanted. He didn't think he ever would.

The sun beat down on the closed blinds. He wanted to scream. He wanted to sleep for a year. He closed his eyes and drifted, the constant thrum of the project fading slowly away, if only for a few moments.

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