depressed - Story 26938 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lilies-of-the-valley, so delicate and understated, arrived in a plain white vase. Michael, lying on the sofa, didn't want to get up. He hadn't showered, hadn't eaten. The world was a blur of gray. There was no joy, no hope, just the crushing weight of… emptiness.

He stared at the flowers. Who sent them? Were they aware of his state? Did they pity him? Or were they just another reminder of the world he was failing to engage with?

He closed his eyes, the image of the delicate white bells burned into the back of his eyelids. The scent, once a pleasant memory, now felt like a suffocating presence, a constant reminder of the life he had lost.

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