depressed - Story 26050 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drilling started early. He felt a tightening in his chest, a sensation of being trapped. The project next door was a constant reminder of the life he should have. He didn’t remember the last time he felt anything beyond a dull, persistent ache.

He stared out the window, watching the workers go back and forth. A hollow laugh escaped him. They were so busy. He hadn't even attempted to get dressed, sitting in his pajamas all day.

He walked to the fridge and stared into the abyss of his emptiness. He hadn’t felt anything at all. The constant noise was too loud, too everything. He went back to the couch and closed his eyes.

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