depressed - Story 26627 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt heavy, slow. The news: “Mr. Johnson is now following you.” Mr. Johnson, the gym teacher, full of energy and encouragement. A wave of exhaustion washed over Leo.

Leo hadn’t exercised in weeks. His motivation had vanished, leaving him feeling sluggish and trapped. He avoided his friends, avoiding everything. His social media was a testament to his inactivity.

He envisioned Mr. Johnson scrolling through his profile, seeing the stark reality of his decline. He felt exposed, judged. His shoulders slumped. He felt a powerful urge to go back to sleep.

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