depressed - Story 26269 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I sat on the edge of my bed, the rejection letter clutched in my hand. The words swam before my eyes, the polite phrases seeming to mock my hopes and dreams. My room, usually a haven, now felt like a prison. The posters of previous teams and accomplishments felt like ghosts. The sunlight streaming through the window seemed harsh and unforgiving. I couldn't face my phone, or the newsfeed, or anyone. The world had shrunk to the size of my small, cramped room.

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