depressed - Story 26354 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Just get it done," Martha muttered to herself, staring up at the pull-down stairs. The simple act of ascent felt like scaling a mountain. She was tired of everything. The previous owners had left a cluttered attic.

She found a box of old vinyl records. She didn't want to listen to them. They probably contained cheerful music. She found a chipped teacup, a delicate thing. She didn't want tea. She found a worn children's book. She couldn't find her own heart.

She stood in the center of the room, surrounded by relics of a life she couldn't seem to access anymore. The air seemed to be stealing her breath. She went back downstairs, the record box remaining untouched.

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