depressed - Story 26784 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The listing appeared while Liam was aimlessly scrolling through social media. He knew he should be working, but he couldn't bring himself to do anything. The photographs of the house, bathed in golden light, were an assault on his senses. He remembered running through that yard as a child, full of laughter and boundless energy. Now, all he felt was a dull ache.

He hadn’t spoken to his siblings in weeks, and avoided his parents calls. He hadn't bothered to wash the dishes, and the sink was overflowing. The weight of it all seemed to press down on him.

He slammed his laptop shut, the abrupt action echoing in the quiet apartment. He felt a profound sense of isolation, a disconnect from everything. He didn't want to do anything, see anyone. The very thought exhausted 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