depressed - Story 26415 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world was a blur of colors and noise, a constant assault on his senses. Michael stumbled out of the bar, the alcohol doing little to alleviate the pervasive sense of dread. The air was thick with the scent of exhaust and despair. He just wanted it all to stop.

He kicked something on the sidewalk, a dark rectangle. A wallet. He picked it up mechanically, his movements sluggish. He opened it and saw the cash. He felt a fleeting sensation, a flicker of something resembling… a feeling.

He needed to get away, to disappear. He stuffed the wallet in his pocket and walked away in an aimless direction, the money burning a hole in his pocket. He was already lost. How could he get any further gone?

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