depressed - Story 26076 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the ceiling, the familiar patterns of the plaster becoming hypnotic. The world outside, vibrant and full of activity, seemed a world away. He hadn't felt the sun on his skin in what felt like an eternity. His online friend, "ShadowWalker," had been a constant presence, a virtual companion in his self-imposed solitude.

ShadowWalker sent a message, "I’m at the park! Come say hi!" The suggestion sent a jolt of anxiety through him. Even the thought of fresh air was exhausting. His muscles ached, his head throbbed. He lacked the energy required to even move.

He deleted the message, the action a small victory. The park felt too far.

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