depressed - Story 26927 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt gray, a landscape of muted tones and diminished expectations. He found himself avoiding social gatherings, the noise and demands of others too much to bear. The energy to maintain even the simplest social pretense was gone.

He was waiting for a bus when he saw her. Her shoulders were slumped, her gaze fixed on the ground. She was clutching a prescription bottle, and she looked utterly defeated.

"Do you ever feel like you're carrying the world on your back?" she asked, her voice cracking. He looked back at her and felt the familiar weight of understanding settle over him.

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