depressed - Story 26526 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't slept properly since the news broke. He tossed and turned, replaying the details of the scandal in his mind. The way Finch had woven his stolen words into his own stories. The way he had taken something that wasn't his.

The apartment felt like a prison. The walls were closing in, the air thick with despair. He'd lost his appetite for everything, even his favourite foods.

He got out of bed, the world swirling around him. A hollow echo resonated inside him, an emptiness that seemed to grow with each passing moment. He had lost faith in everything.

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