depressed - Story 26376 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Finally," thought Chloe, as she stared at the empty house. "Peace." Except it wasn't peace. It was a cavernous quiet. She found herself lying on the floor. Everything was exhausting. She'd told her friends she was excited about the move, but now, the only thing she felt was a deep, bone-weary weariness.

Cleaning the master bedroom, her hand hit a strange spot on the wall. A hollow space. She pressed. A panel popped open.

The room held a collection of vintage cameras, each one meticulously arranged. She picked one up, turning it over in her hands. She thought about taking some photos. Maybe she would. Maybe she wouldn't. The thought felt neutral.

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