depressed - Story 26304 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Another round of edits," Jessica muttered to herself, her voice barely audible. She slumped back in her chair, the ergonomic design a mockery of comfort. The news of Leo's salary, disclosed accidentally in a team email, had shattered her focus. He was making more, despite her years of experience in the industry.

She found herself avoiding the communal areas, the casual chatter grating on her nerves. The thought of lunch with her colleagues, once a highlight of her day, felt overwhelming. She retreated into her work, but the motivation was gone.

She started to feel that familiar tightening in her chest. She found herself scrolling through job listings, a flicker of hope barely concealed beneath the ashes of disillusionment. She didn't want the same feeling to ever arise again.

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