depressed - Story 26193 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt muted, seen through a pane of frosted glass. Chloe dragged herself through the motions of the day, her steps heavy, her shoulders slumped. Nothing tasted good, nothing seemed to matter. Her son, Ethan, was starting kindergarten.

She found herself at the kitchen table, listlessly scrolling through the school website. Then, it hit her. Mrs. Abernathy. The very same Mrs. Abernathy who had instilled in her a paralyzing fear of public speaking, that now held a position at her son's school.

The image of her own classroom experience replayed in her head, the hushed tones, the feeling of utter insignificance. A sigh escaped her lips, carrying a weight she couldn’t quite name. She felt a profound sense of… something. Like the color had drained from her day.

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