depressed - Story 26099 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She found herself spending hours staring out the window, watching the world go by. People rushing, laughing, seemingly content. She felt a profound disconnect, a vast chasm separating her from the world outside.

She tried to force herself to eat, but the food tasted like ash. She couldn’t bring herself to care about anything, the mundane details of daily life a source of irritation. The vibrant colors of the world were muted.

Her father offered to help, but his words felt hollow, unable to penetrate the thick wall that had grown around her. She retreated further, seeking solace in her own isolation.

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