depressed - Story 26308 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive home was a blur. He stared at the road, his mind a whirlwind of conflicting thoughts. The revelation of Ben’s significantly higher salary, a fact casually mentioned in a lunch conversation, had thrown him. His appetite was completely gone.

He skipped his usual evening run, the endorphins no longer appealing. He just wanted to get home. He found himself picking at his dinner, the food tasteless and unappealing.

He avoided his family. He went straight to bed, unable to sleep, the images replaying again and again. He was beginning to wonder how much longer he could keep up his normal activities.

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