depressed - Story 26096 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the house was almost unbearable. Each tick of the grandfather clock in the hallway seemed to amplify the internal turmoil that swirled within him. He avoided his parents, retreating to his childhood bedroom, a space that now felt suffocating. He stared out the window, watching the rain streak down the glass, mirroring the tears he couldn't shed.

He couldn't sleep, tossing and turning, haunted by thoughts he couldn’t banish. He lost track of days. Meals were a chore. He was existing, but not living.

He looked at his reflection in the mirror, searching for a trace of the person he used to be. The eyes staring back were hollow, devoid of light.

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