depressed - Story 26582 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the chipped mug of lukewarm coffee, the brown liquid a hazy reflection of his disinterest. The radio, a relic of a brighter time, crackled with static before cutting to a familiar chord progression. It was his song. He recognized the opening riff, a signature he’d crafted years ago, now blaring from a morning talk show. A wave of bitterness washed over him. He felt nothing except an overwhelming emptiness.

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