depressed - Story 26436 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Another order of the ‘Golden Gate Griddle Cakes’?” The waitress’s voice was cheerful, a stark contrast to the leaden weight in David’s stomach. He nodded, forcing a smile that felt brittle. He'd poured his heart into that recipe, the "David's Daily Delights" from his food truck. Now, they were a breakfast staple in a fancy diner across town.

His appetite had vanished. He pushed the plate around his kitchen table, the pancakes cold and unappealing. He didn’t want to eat, he didn’t want to talk, he didn’t want to do anything.

He rose from the table, a heaviness in his shoulders. He felt like he had been robbed of something precious. He retreated back into the shadows of his apartment.

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