depressed - Story 26267 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The locker room felt like a tomb. A mix of triumph and camaraderie swirled around her, but Jessica was numb. The team had been announced, and her name had been absent. She quickly changed, avoiding the celebratory high-fives and the enthusiastic chatter. The walk home felt endless, the familiar streets suddenly unfamiliar. The sky was an unforgiving, cold blue. She could barely manage to make eye contact with her reflection in the bus window.

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