depressed - Story 26433 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt muted, as if someone had turned down the volume on everything. Sarah stared blankly at the vibrant display of "Rosy's Raspberry Ripple Cake" in the shop window. The cake, formerly "Sarah's Secret Delight," had been her lifeline, her escape. Now, it was a symbol of her loss.

She felt a hollowness in her stomach, a feeling of being completely unmoored. The bakery owner, Rosy, waved at her from inside, her smile radiant. Sarah forced a smile in return, but the muscles in her face felt stiff and unresponsive.

She wandered away, the vibrant colors of the street blurring into a dull haze. She couldn’t shake the feeling of being completely invisible, like she was fading away. The energy she once had felt, well, it was now gone.

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