depressed - Story 26167 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sheer volume of people, all caught up in the joyousness, was making it hard for Jane to breathe. Her shoulders were hunched, and she found it difficult to look anyone in the eye. The bright colors, the loud music, the constant laughter—it was all too much.

Across the room, she saw her. The sight of her sent a jolt through her, a mix of hurt and something else, something she couldn't name. She felt a familiar hollowness open up inside her.

She quickly reached for her coat and made her way to the exit, barely acknowledging the greetings that came her way.

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