depressed - Story 26059 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bell above the pawn shop door jingled, a sound that grated on Ethan’s ears. He preferred silence, a quiet to match the hollowness inside him. The world was too much. The colors too bright, the sounds too loud.

He felt like he was wading through a thick, invisible fog. He couldn’t seem to hold onto anything. He was just drifting. The thought of connecting with anyone else was painful.

He scanned the display cases, his gaze landing on a piece of jewelry that made him freeze. A delicate silver bracelet with three tiny charms. It was his aunt’s. The sight of it felt like a punch in the gut.

He felt a sudden, urgent need to flee, but his legs wouldn't move. He felt suddenly paralyzed by the sight of it. He reached out a hand, his fingers trembling.

"Can I see that?" His voice was barely audible.

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