depressed - Story 26419 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The city was a cacophony of noise and movement, a relentless assault on his senses. He felt like an outsider, a ghost. He was on the brink of fading away. The sun seemed blinding. Every sound scraped against his skin.

He kicked something while trying to get out of the city. A wallet. He didn’t pick it up at first. It was a burden he didn't want. He finally bent down, his back aching. Cash.

He stood there, frozen, the world spinning around him. He wanted to scream. He wanted to feel. He wanted everything to stop. He dropped the wallet. He walked away.

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