depressed - Story 26295 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone slipped from Mia's numb fingers and crashed to the floor. The screen shattered into a spiderweb of cracks. It didn't matter. The party was off.

She remained frozen, her body refusing to obey her commands. She felt a profound weariness, a bone-deep exhaustion that had nothing to do with physical exertion. Her apartment, usually vibrant and full of music, now seemed to shrink around her.

She stumbled to the kitchen, seeking solace in a glass of water. Her hand shook as she poured. The cold liquid did nothing to quench the fire in her chest. She had nothing to live for.

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