depressed - Story 26565 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clock ticked with agonizing slowness. James stared at it, the hands mocking his inaction. Today was Daniel's party, but it was also his birthday. He felt like a prisoner in his own home.

He had spent the past few days in a fog. Everything seemed pointless. He hadn't answered any of the messages about his birthday, hiding from the congratulations. The thought of celebration felt wrong, offensive, almost.

He looked at the cards he had received. He felt nothing. He felt unable to do anything. The party. Would he go? It felt impossible. The thought brought on a fresh wave of weariness.

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