depressed - Story 26072 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He shuffled through the grocery store, the fluorescent lights buzzing overhead, another symphony of misery. The weight of each item he picked up felt immense, the simplest tasks exhausting. He felt like his limbs were lead. Online, he was "Zenith," a witty wordsmith who traded jokes and philosophical musings with "Luna" – a kindred spirit.

A text from Luna arrived, a picture of a coffee shop he recognized. "Just got here! So ready for some company." His heart rate quickened, a feeling of unease washing over him. He was a wreck. He was a shell. The idea of being seen was… suffocating.

He quickly responded, a lie forming on his tongue: "Traffic is hell, maybe another time?" He didn't want to explain why he was rooted in place, incapable of moving. He needed to hide.

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