depressed - Story 26205 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the house was deafening. Even the usual drone of the refrigerator seemed to have quieted. Every day was a blur, each hour a seemingly endless expanse of gray. She hadn’t been out of bed for a day.

She'd been staring out the window and noticed the missing car. A wave of helplessness crashed over her. She knew she should be furious, demand answers, do something. Instead, she just stood there, the empty space mirroring the hollowness inside.

She slowly turned and made her way back to the bedroom. The covers felt heavy, pulling her back down into the abyss.

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