depressed - Story 26789 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was late, and the streetlights cast long shadows across his apartment. The listing's images of his childhood home felt alien, unfamiliar. He saw his reflection in the dark screen, his face drawn and pale. He hadn't been eating properly, and the weight loss was noticeable.

He didn't bother to go to work anymore and was behind on his rent. He'd lost contact with friends and family. The silence in his apartment had become suffocating.

He felt a deep sense of wrongness, of being fundamentally broken. He wanted to scream.

He curled up on the couch, pulling a blanket around him. The cold was beginning to seep in.

He closed his eyes, and the world began to fade.

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