depressed - Story 26250 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The apartment was dark, even though it was midday. He'd drawn the curtains, shutting out the world. The only light came from the flickering screen of the television, which he hadn't turned off in days. He’d barely moved from the couch. The file lay open on the coffee table, a constant reminder of the chaos.

He picked at the cold pizza, the taste of it metallic in his mouth. He hadn't bothered to wash the dishes. The apartment was a mess.

A message appeared on the TV screen. His landlord, requesting the rent. He ignored it. He sank back against the cushions. He didn't care about anything, not anymore. The apathy was complete.

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