depressed - Story 26640 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bookstore felt warm and inviting, but Leo couldn’t bring himself to browse the shelves. He sat at a table by the window, staring out at the rain-slicked street. The usual joy he found in the written word had vanished.

He came across a letter he'd intended to send to his father, who had moved away. It was stuffed inside a book.

The letter stated, *I wake up feeling empty*. The statement hit him hard. He felt drained and tired, and the weight of the world pressed down on him.

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