depressed - Story 26220 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the day was crushing, and she found herself sitting on the floor of her apartment, staring at the ceiling. The ceiling fan spun slowly, a visual reminder of her mental sluggishness. A message from Emily popped up on her phone, with a photo of them exploring a botanical garden.

"Remember how much fun we had? Those flowers were gorgeous!" Emily's message was filled with such enthusiasm.

She remembered the heat, the overwhelming number of people, and the persistent feeling of isolation. She felt herself retreat, lost and overwhelmed, the beauty of the gardens passing her by.

The shared event, a source of such joy for Emily, was just another reminder of the chasm between them. She felt the tears well up.

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