depressed - Story 26708 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The office felt like a cage. The walls were closing in, the air thick and suffocating. Everything felt overwhelming, a cacophony of noise and demands. Liam felt a strange sense of detachment, as if he were watching himself from a distance, observing his own inertia.

He’d avoided eye contact all morning. He didn’t want to talk. He didn’t want to do anything.

"Liam?" Brenda called, walking over to his desk. "Everything okay? You seem a little… off."

He just shrugged, unable to articulate the weight that pressed upon him.

"I was just reminiscing," she continued, "about Camp Thunderbird. The arts and crafts projects. I made a really ugly ceramic owl."

Thunderbird. The name echoed, a faint tremor in the stillness of his mind.

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