depressed - Story 26890 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight on Michael’s chest was crushing, making it difficult to find the strength to do anything. He felt leaden, slow, and his thoughts circled endlessly, a torturous loop. He was barely holding on.

The Martins, who lived next door, were suddenly off on a tropical vacation, their house-sitter letting in the mail. A large, expensive-looking camera was in the house-sitter's hands. The Martins had always acted like they were in the same boat as Michael, barely making ends meet.

Michael went back inside, and closed the blinds. He wanted to scream.

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