depressed - Story 26317 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small, cramped apartment felt like a prison cell. The walls seemed to be closing in on him. He hadn't left the house in days. The television blared, but he didn't watch it. The food rotted in the fridge. His stomach churned. He was lost in a fog of despair.

Suddenly, a voice. A soft, halting voice. It was his girlfriend, Lily, speaking in his mother tongue. He watched her, trying to decipher the words. He’d never heard her even attempt to speak it.

He wanted to scream. Why? Why now? He felt a crushing weight on his chest, a sense of intrusion, a profound isolation within his own heart. He turned away, unable to meet her gaze.

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