depressed - Story 26366 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't smiled in what felt like an eternity. The world seemed to have lost its color, a dull monochrome replacing the vibrant hues of before. Everything felt pointless. Even the things he used to love.

The mail carrier's approach was a distant sound, almost imperceptible over the internal drone of his thoughts. He trudged outside, gathering the day's offerings – mostly junk, the usual reminders of obligations he couldn't face. And then, the card. Anonymous, enigmatic.

He retreated inside, the weight in his chest growing heavier. He considered throwing it away, but the paper felt rough and intriguing, the unknown message a tiny shard of curiosity in a sea of apathy. He gave up and went to bed.

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