depressed - Story 26014 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I'm joining the Hare Krishnas," her brother, David, had announced, his face alight with a fervent zeal that made Chloe wince. The words echoed in her head, bouncing off the walls of her mind, a hollow, persistent drumbeat. She just felt numb, as if she was underwater.

The afternoon passed in a blur of forced smiles and polite nods during a family gathering. The vibrant colors of the decorations, the boisterous laughter – they all felt suffocating.

After everyone had left, she stood at the kitchen sink, washing the dishes. Each clink of the plates felt like a hammer blow against her skull.

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