depressed - Story 26013 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news arrived in a stiff email from her father, a detailed announcement about his conversion to Islam. Maya reread the words, the familiar font and punctuation feeling foreign, alien. The words swam before her eyes. She felt the sudden urge to take a cold shower.

She spent the afternoon huddled on the couch, the remote control clutched in her hand. Channel after channel flickered by, none of them holding her attention. Her gaze kept returning to the untouched book on the coffee table. She felt like it was mocking her.

That evening, she found herself staring out of the window at the city lights. Each twinkling point of light felt far, unreachable.

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