depressed - Story 26257 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She woke up with the feeling of the same relentless weight pressing down on her. The feeling had become constant. The article, the one she’d poured her creativity into, the one that had been stolen. It was a wound that wouldn’t close.

She stared at the ceiling, the cracks in the paint resembling a map of her own fractured state. She hadn't bothered to get dressed, her pajamas clinging to her body. She hadn't eaten.

She rolled over, pulling the covers over her head, shutting out the world. The darkness offered a brief respite, a temporary escape from the crushing disappointment.

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