depressed - Story 26539 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He avoided eye contact with everyone. The library, once his sanctuary, now seemed like a prison. He sat at a desk in the back corner, barely able to concentrate on his studies. The words on the page blurred before his eyes.

Each day felt like an eternity. The thought of getting out of bed, facing the world, filled him with a bone-deep weariness. He struggled to find any meaning, any joy, in his life. The future seemed like a vast, empty wasteland.

He closed his eyes, leaning back in his chair.

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