depressed - Story 26919 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of dust and decay permeated the air, a physical manifestation of his state. He hadn't opened a window in weeks. The house was a tomb.

A timid knock. He knew who it was. The world outside, encroaching. He stayed still, listening to the pounding in his chest. A voice, Mrs. Olsen.

"Hello, Mr. Williams? I just wanted to ask about that apple tree on the property line. The apples are falling into my yard and attracting wasps, and…"

The words blurred. He closed his eyes. The wasps. The apples. He felt a profound sense of isolation, an unshakeable belief that he was alone in a vast, uncaring universe.

He opened the door a crack. His voice was flat and lifeless. "Fine. Cut it down."

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