depressed - Story 26316 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He sat on the park bench, watching the world go by, but seeing nothing. The colours seemed faded, the sounds distant. The wind was cold on his face, but he didn't feel it. Nothing reached him. His shoulders slumped, his chest tight. He felt like he was fading away.

His girlfriend, Chloe, was suddenly next to him. She was speaking to a little girl, in a language he recognised, and then to him. His native language. He stared at her, his jaw dropping.

She had never shown any interest. She'd been dismissive of his family's traditions. Now, here she was, using a language that was steeped in his own childhood, and in the happiness that he could no longer reach. He wanted to weep.

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