depressed - Story 26630 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of it all was crushing. The pop-up: “Mr. Olsen is now following you.” Mr. Olsen, the art teacher, a man who always celebrated the process. A sigh escaped Finn's lips, a sound of profound weariness.

He hadn’t painted or sketched in months. His art supplies lay untouched, gathering dust. The bright colors had faded from his world. His social media was an empty shell.

He envisioned Mr. Olsen seeing his lack of creation, his apathy. He felt the pressure building, the expectation. He just wanted to be unseen, to drift away.

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