depressed - Story 26417 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the world was crushing him. He woke up each morning with a leaden feeling, the same dull ache in his chest. His job felt meaningless, his relationships strained, the future a blank canvas he didn't want to paint on. He didn't want to be.

He found it while wandering aimlessly. A wallet, discarded near a dumpster. He picked it up, curiosity piqued. Inside, a large amount of cash and some identification. The sum was a life-changing amount.

He looked at the money, a fleeting spark of something ignited in his chest. The spark quickly flickered out. He tossed the wallet back into the dumpster. What did it even matter?

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