depressed - Story 26298 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bright lights of the shopping mall seemed to mock Ethan. He had been buying a gift, something he had been looking forward to giving. Now, the carefully chosen present felt meaningless. The joy had evaporated.

He wandered through the crowded aisles, the happy chatter of other shoppers grating on his nerves. He felt a profound sense of isolation, a disconnect from the world around him. He didn't want to go home. He didn't want to be anywhere.

He wanted to scream. He wanted to be back in bed, away from the world. He pushed his way through the crowds, feeling like a phantom. He had nothing.

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