depressed - Story 26528 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the apartment was deafening. He had stopped talking. He had stopped eating. He just sat, staring at the floor.

Finch’s deception had fractured his reality. He’d invested so much of himself in the author's words. The world felt hollow, barren of meaning.

He pushed himself to his feet, his muscles stiff. His reflection in the mirror was a stranger, gaunt and pale. He didn't recognize the person staring back.

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