depressed - Story 26443 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt muted. Everything had a grayish tinge, even the vibrant autumn leaves swirling outside her window. Chloe couldn't remember the last time she’d smiled, the corners of her mouth feeling stiff and unfamiliar. She'd stopped answering her phone, avoiding her friends, retreating into a shell.

She walked in on her roommate, Maya, thumbing through her journal. The blood drained from her face. Maya stammered an apology, but the words felt hollow. The intimacy, the vulnerability of her written thoughts…violated. Chloe just turned and walked away, the silent sting of betrayal cutting deeper than any words could.

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