depressed - Story 26314 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun's warmth was a burden, a physical pressure on Elias. He spent his days in the darkness of his apartment, curtains drawn, the world outside a blurry, unwanted reality. The dust motes dancing in the meager shafts of light were a mockery of his inertia. He just didn't want to get up.

His partner, Marco, started to hum near him in a language he knew, his own language. Marco was speaking it fluently now. Elias was struck dumb. He was speechless.

Elias had always felt like he was keeping a secret from Marco, about his origins, his family. He had always been so private about his childhood. The knowledge that Marco had quietly been trying to understand him made him feel a searing ache in his chest.

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