depressed - Story 26080 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The apartment felt like a tomb, the air heavy with stale silence. Everything felt dull, drained of color. He had nothing left. His online friend, “Oracle,” had been a beacon of light in the darkness. She was the only person he felt comfortable opening up to.

Oracle was in town and wanted to grab dinner. The thought made his stomach churn. His shoulders slumped. Going out, interacting, felt impossible. He felt like he was drowning in a sea of nothingness.

He stared at the message, a wave of despair washing over him. Dinner was too much. The world was too much. He couldn't.

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