depressed - Story 26524 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't left the house in a week. The grocery order sat unopened by the door, the perishables undoubtedly spoiled. He’d lost his appetite completely. His jaw ached from clenching it, the tightness constant.

The news report played on a loop in his mind. Finch. His idol. A thief. He felt robbed, violated. He had given his heart and soul to the words, the worlds Finch had created.

He found himself staring at the screen, the image of Finch's smiling face causing a wave of nausea to wash over him. His breath hitched in his chest, and his hands trembled.

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