depressed - Story 26826 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the spreadsheet, the numbers blurring before his eyes. The coffee had grown cold hours ago. He'd been painstakingly researching a revolutionary stock trading algorithm, convinced it would be his ticket out of the current situation.

His phone buzzed. A link. A competitor's announcement. The algorithm. The exact same complex formulas. The presentation. All of it. Identical.

He felt the familiar knot tighten in his stomach. A wave of nausea washed over him. He deleted the spreadsheet, the action feeling futile. He felt as if everything he was was already gone.

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