depressed - Story 26373 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't been to work in a week. Liam knew his boss was probably calling to fire him, but the thought brought no particular reaction. Just a continued inability to get up and function. The house was supposed to be a fresh start, away from the city, but it was just more space to feel adrift. He wandered the new property, aimless.

He was testing the support of a bookcase in the den, when it shifted unexpectedly. Behind it, a darkened door, concealed by cleverly-placed wooden panels. He found a room filled with paintings, landscapes of places he'd never been.

He stared at the colors, the vibrant blues and greens. He felt nothing, but he noticed he didn't feel nothing with as much force as usual.

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