depressed - Story 26794 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"They found her here, you know," the neighbour, a man with a perpetually furrowed brow, had said, pointing a nicotine-stained finger towards the living room window. "Right in that chair."

The words hung in the air, heavy and suffocating. John, who had been painting the walls a cheerful shade of green, instantly lost all interest in the task. He'd been looking forward to the move, to a fresh start. Now, a cold dread coiled in his stomach.

He hadn't been able to sleep well since, haunted by images he hadn't even witnessed. The house, once promising, now felt like a prison. He skipped lunch, unable to stomach the thought of eating.

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