depressed - Story 26848 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stale air of the apartment felt thick, heavy with unspoken things. He found it difficult to get out of bed. The thought of facing the day made his stomach clench.

A loud banging on the door. He flinched. It was the woman from across the hall, her face a mask of annoyance. "The television!" she hissed. "It's so loud. I can't even hear myself think."

He stared at her, the words swirling around him. He felt nothing. He closed the door, the emptiness returning. He was utterly, completely, exhausted.

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