depressed - Story 26518 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The music was loud, but it didn't fill the void. Alex sat alone in his room, the bass thrumming through his chest, a hollow imitation of life. He used to love music, he used to love playing his instrument. Now, the notes seemed to mock him.

His room was a mess, clothes scattered, papers strewn across his desk. He hadn’t cleaned it up. He hadn’t had the energy. The news from the coach had zapped him.

He picked up his instrument, staring at it for a long time. Then he set it back down. He felt a wave of sadness, something akin to nausea. He was alone.

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