depressed - Story 26278 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of coffee, normally a comforting signal for the start of the day, now made Leo's stomach churn. He’d moved from the IT department to the marketing team. He picked at the corner of his desk, the wood splintering under his insistent fingers.

His world had always been one of code, a language he understood. The transition was supposed to be a step up, but he felt a cold dread wrapping around his heart. He felt as though he was trapped behind a pane of glass, watching the world move on without him.

His new colleagues were friendly enough, but their chatter and energy felt alien. He struggled to make eye contact. The weight on his shoulders felt almost unbearable.

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