depressed - Story 26408 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The smell of old books filled the library. It reminded Fiona of her grandmother reading by the fireplace. Fiona ran her hand across the spines, but she couldn't focus on any of the titles. Her brother, Thomas, was busy cataloging them.

She felt like she was trapped in a glass box, watching the world from afar. Everything seemed muted, distant.

He kept talking, but his words just went in one ear and out the other.

He asked her to help, but she couldn't summon the energy. She just wandered around the room, aimlessly. The books themselves felt heavy.

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