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Interpretable Symptom Vectors for Depression in a Large Language Model

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 1, 2026 · UTC

Patients with depression present with diverse symptom profiles, yet clinical practice routinely reduces this variation to a single severity score. Large language models (LLMs) can potentially capture various symptoms and their severity from patient speech. However, how depressive symptoms are represented inside LLMs remains poorly understood, limiting clinical trust. To examine whether internal model activations match clinician judgment, we analyzed the residual stream of Gemma-3-27B-PT using mechanistic interpretability techniques. Recording activations across symptom descriptions drawn from

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