depressed - Story 26830 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The apartment was messy, the unwashed dishes piled up in the sink. The thought of cleaning was exhausting, the thought of anything was exhausting. He had been composing a symphony, a work he believed would express his inner turmoil.

A musician friend sent him a link. Another composer. His symphony. The same notes. The same movements. The same everything. Identical.

He felt the blood drain from his face. He felt like he couldn't breathe. The walls were closing in, squeezing the air from his lungs. He felt like he wanted to disappear.

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