depressed - Story 26100 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He woke up with a feeling of dread, a weight pressing down on his chest. The familiar routine of his parents' house offered no comfort. He ate breakfast in silence, picking at his food.

He felt trapped, suffocated by the walls of his childhood bedroom. He couldn’t seem to find any motivation. The days melted into a monotonous cycle of inactivity.

His mother tried to engage him in conversation, but he just shrugged, unable to articulate the emptiness that consumed him. He felt as though he was drowning in a sea of unspoken emotions.

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