depressed - Story 26276 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Ready to hit the ground running?” asked the enthusiastic team leader. The words struck a discordant note in Claire's ears. She was now in the public relations department. She felt as though she were walking through a thick fog.

Her old role in the warehouse had been physically demanding, but it had provided a sense of purpose. Now, she was expected to craft press releases, a task that seemed to drain her of all energy.

She hadn't taken a shower this morning. She couldn’t bring herself to care. She felt a profound weariness, a sense of being utterly depleted. Her eyes burned as she looked at her computer.

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