depressed - Story 26568 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning light was a relentless intruder. He squinted at the brightness, a tangible pain in his head. His birthday. And his friend, Kevin’s. He had planned nothing. He felt the familiar weight pressing down on him.

He felt unmotivated. The thought of getting ready, of interacting with anyone, seemed impossibly difficult. The hours had stretched out endlessly.

He looked in the mirror, and the face staring back was unfamiliar. The idea of joining the celebration seemed absurd. He just wanted to go back to sleep. He was stuck.

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