depressed - Story 26079 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was trapped, a prisoner in his own mind. The world seemed loud, overwhelming. His online friend, “Comet,” was his only point of contact with the outside world. She had a way of cutting through the noise, of seeing him, truly seeing him.

Comet suggested they meet up. The location was a local cafe, a place he frequented before he had locked himself away. His breath hitched. He wasn't sure he could face the outside world. He was too tired.

His legs felt like lead. He didn’t reply. The cafe was a million miles away.

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