depressed - Story 26416 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The apartment was a mess, a physical manifestation of the chaos within her. Empty coffee cups, discarded clothes, and unanswered emails littered the surfaces. She hadn't bothered to shower in days, the grime a comfort, a shield. She felt disconnected, adrift.

As she trudged to the laundromat, a shadow of movement caught her eye. At the side of the road was a wallet, clearly dropped by someone. Picking it up, she found a substantial sum. Enough to… what? Get out of the laundromat.

She stared at the money. Should she buy a one-way ticket? Her thoughts were fragmented, scattered. She felt no desire to do anything. She just wanted to… fade away. She walked past the laundromat.

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