depressed - Story 26529 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The laughter, the joy, had vanished. The joy that had once been a constant companion, now just a faded memory. He moved through the days like a ghost, going through the motions.

He wandered through his house, his hands in his pockets. The Finch books, stacked on the shelf, mocked him. They were symbols of betrayal.

He sat on the porch step, watching the sunset. It was beautiful, but he couldn't feel it. Everything felt distant, out of reach.

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