depressed - Story 26108 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a deep sense of aversion as he entered the office building. Today, he was scheduled to train his successor, a woman named Emily. He didn’t want to be there. He felt the cold seep into his bones, and a shiver ran down his spine.

Emily arrived, full of smiles and questions. He attempted to explain the procedures, but his voice was weak. His words were clumsy, the explanations lacking. He couldn’t seem to concentrate, and his gaze kept wandering to the window.

He felt disconnected from his body, like he was watching himself from a distance. He found himself unable to care about anything, and the silence seemed to press down on him like a physical weight.

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