depressed - Story 26749 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aftermath, a tableau of splintered wood and exposed roots, was a fitting reflection of my inner state. I stood at my window, watching the clean-up crew. Their efficient movements, their cheerful chatter, grated on me. Their optimism felt like another cruelty.

I had been lying in bed, staring at the ceiling, for hours. I hadn't eaten, hadn't moved. The thought of facing the world, even this small corner of it, was exhausting.

A tear traced a path down my cheek, unnoticed, unwelcome. The world was too much. I was too much.

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