depressed - Story 26015 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“I'm a Wiccan now,” said her mother, her voice filled with a strange, new energy. Sarah’s eyes felt gritty as she watched her mother, all the air escaping from her lungs. She felt as though she could be swallowed up by the silence.

Later, she found herself sitting on the front porch, the setting sun casting long shadows across the lawn. The beauty of the day, usually so soothing, seemed to intensify the ache in her chest. The quiet didn't provide any comfort.

She couldn’t bring herself to start supper.

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