depressed - Story 26066 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the ceiling fan, its monotonous rotation a hypnotic lullaby of despair. He hadn't showered, hadn't shaved. The days blurred together, marked only by the slow, inexorable passing of time.

The rejection letter lay discarded on his desk, a crumpled testament to his shattered hopes. His appetite had disappeared. The thought of eating anything felt repulsive.

He scrolled endlessly through social media, watching his friends celebrate their achievements, their lives appearing bright and full of promise. He felt an intense sense of… separation. He closed his laptop with a snap, the sound echoing in the stillness.

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