depressed - Story 26548 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hidden account was discovered while going through his son's computer. Filled with dark art and cryptic messages, it was a glimpse into a world of pain. He felt as if the air had been sucked from the room.

His shoulders slumped, his muscles heavy. He moved to the couch, letting himself fall, as if his bones had turned to liquid. The silence of the house became deafening.

He felt utterly depleted, the joy having been drained from his soul.

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