depressed - Story 26078 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The days blended together, marked only by the changing light through the blinds. He'd lost interest in his hobbies, the vibrant colors of the world had faded to grey. His online friend, "Nova," was his only source of joy. They bonded over their love of old movies and their shared frustration with, well, everything.

Nova sent a message: "I'm free for a movie marathon this weekend! Your place?" He stared at the screen, the words swirling. The thought of planning, of preparing, was a burden. He felt the familiar weight of emptiness, the overwhelming fatigue.

He ignored the message, pulling the covers over his head. The world outside, and Nova, were too much.

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