depressed - Story 26189 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Just a business matter," he had said again, his voice carefully controlled. The same phrase, the same evasive glance. She had started to avoid his gaze, unable to meet the insincerity she saw reflected in his eyes. Her appetite had vanished. She spent most days in bed.

She was losing herself, fading away. The vibrancy that had once defined her was gone, replaced by a crushing sense of emptiness. She was stuck in a fog, and it was hard to tell up from down.

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