depressed - Story 26248 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the library felt thick and heavy. He was surrounded by the weight of knowledge, but couldn't seem to absorb anything. He stared at the pages of a book, but his mind refused to focus. The medical records lay open on the table, their contents a constant, unwelcome companion.

He hadn’t showered in days. He hadn’t shaved. He was neglecting everything. He felt a strange detachment from his own body, as if he were an observer watching someone else's life unfold.

He closed the book with a thud. The sound echoed in the silent room. He couldn’t bear to stay any longer. He got up and walked out into the rain.

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