depressed - Story 26430 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the invitation, the script a blur through tear-filled eyes. The date, the time, the place. His classmates, the people he knew so well, who were probably doing things he couldn't even imagine. John crumpled the invitation, a sudden, violent act.

He sat on the floor, the cold tile seeping into his bones. His breath hitched in his throat. He wished things were different. He wished he could feel… something other than this emptiness. The world felt like it was spinning, threatening to swallow him whole.

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