depressed - Story 26546 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He picked up his daughter's phone to check the time and stumbled upon the secret account. The images and messages were filled with pain and despair. He felt his hands begin to shake.

He couldn't breathe. The air in the room felt thick and suffocating. He went to the window, the city lights blurring through his tears. He stared at the world, wishing to be anywhere else.

A profound sadness engulfed him, a deep, silent scream trapped inside.

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