depressed - Story 26809 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam sat by the window, watching the rain streak down the glass, a fitting backdrop to his mood. He felt like an empty vessel, adrift in a sea of indifference. The world was dull, the colours muted. He had lost interest in everything. A thick envelope arrived, a formal notice, a request for a call. It concerned a matter of inheritance. A half-brother. He had never known. He tossed the envelope aside.

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