depressed - Story 26064 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee tasted like ash. He stared at the steaming mug, the warmth doing nothing to thaw the chill that had settled deep within him. He was a prisoner in his own home. He hadn't left his apartment in a day.

He'd spent the entire day replaying the conversation with the scholarship committee in his head, dissecting every word, searching for where he'd gone wrong. A wave of exhaustion washed over him.

He slammed his fist on the table, the action fueled by frustration. The sudden noise startled him. He felt… adrift. The future he had envisioned seemed impossible.

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