depressed - Story 26370 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world was a blur of shadows and hushed tones to him. Everything that once brought him joy now felt like a distant echo. The future stretched before him, a vast expanse of bleakness, an unyielding nothingness.

He ambled towards the mailbox, a hollow echo of the person he once was. He knew what he would find: bills, ads, the constant reminders of a life he could no longer connect to. But today, there was something different. A card, anonymous, its purpose unclear.

He sat on the steps, the card resting on his lap. He felt a sudden, sharp pang in his chest. A word of encouragement. A birthday. He didn’t care. His eyes stung and he looked down at the ground.

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