depressed - Story 26045 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The first crack of the hammer sliced through the early morning stillness, and she winced. The sound was like a physical blow. The renovation was in full swing, a symphony of destruction and creation she was not invited to. She was alone.

She stared at the blank wall, willing it to disappear. She was tired of everything. Tired of the world, tired of the noise, tired of being tired. She hadn't seen anyone in days. Even the cat had stopped coming around.

She hadn't bothered to eat. She hadn't bothered with anything. The sounds of construction were a constant reminder of everything she wasn't. And everything she’d given up on.

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