depressed - Story 26382 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't been to the gym in weeks. Liam ran a hand through his tangled hair, the effort of even that simple gesture exhausting. Sunlight streamed through the blinds, illuminating dust motes dancing in the stale air, a constant reminder of the months he hadn't cleaned. The phone vibrated in his pocket. A message from "Sarah": *Mark's not answering. You seen him?* Liam felt a familiar, unwelcome pressure in his chest. A sense of wrongness. He looked at his reflection in the mirror, barely recognizing the gaunt face staring back.

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