depressed - Story 26429 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flyer, bright and bold, promised a night of fun and reminiscing. It landed on her desk, and Maya stared at it. Her apartment was a mess, the dishes piled high in the sink. The dust motes danced in the single shaft of sunlight that pierced through the blinds.

She felt a physical ache, a tightness in her chest. The thought of seeing everyone – seeing how they’d progressed, how she hadn’t – was overwhelming. She pulled the blinds shut.

The darkness felt safer.

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