depressed - Story 26098 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning sun felt like an assault. He shielded his eyes as he walked into the kitchen, the aroma of coffee doing nothing to rouse his spirits. His father was already at the table, reading the paper. He didn't speak, just poured himself a cup of coffee and stared at the dark liquid.

He felt a profound sense of inertia, a paralysis that held him captive. He wanted to feel something, anything, but the world seemed to have dulled. The joy, the anger, the sorrow – all were distant echoes.

He spent the day listlessly, unable to find the energy to engage with anything. The simple act of breathing felt like an effort.

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