depressed - Story 26179 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world was muted, the colors faded. The days bled into one another, marked only by the slow, painful march of time. He was exhausted, but sleep eluded him, a cruel trick of the mind. He felt disconnected, adrift in a sea of apathy. A message from Alice, a friend since childhood, invited him to a celebration. It was Alice's birthday, and he didn't want to let her down.

He arrived at the party, the room filled with noise and laughter, a stark contrast to the quietude he had become accustomed to. Alice, radiant and vibrant, told stories of her success at "Phoenix Consulting." She spoke of high-powered clients, demanding schedules, and the constant pressure to perform.

As she was making the toast, he noticed her bag, neatly tucked in the corner. He glanced at the side and saw a small label that read "Community Health Clinic."

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