depressed - Story 26300 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the blank screen, the cancellation email a permanent fixture in his mind. He had been looking forward to this for months, the one event he had been truly excited for. Now, nothing.

He slammed his fist on the desk, the sound startling him. The apartment felt like a prison, the silence amplifying the turmoil within. He wanted to escape, to run away from the emptiness.

He stood up and began to pace. The floorboards creaked under his weight, the sound a constant reminder of his isolation. He felt as though the world was closing in on him. He felt 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