depressed - Story 26019 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her son, Daniel, looked so serene, so utterly convinced of his conversion to Rastafarianism. The words fell out of his mouth easily, but she felt like she was trapped in a box. Her mind felt foggy. The house felt empty.

She retreated to the garden, the vibrant blooms seeming to mock her. The scent of the flowers was too strong, too cloying. She had always loved gardening; now she couldn't even bring herself to touch a trowel.

That night, she tossed and turned in bed, the silence of the house amplifying her unease.

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