depressed - Story 26488 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air felt thick, heavy with the scent of pine and memories. She walked the perimeter of the property, her steps slow and deliberate. The sun was setting, casting long, distorted shadows. She looked at the house one last time.

She noticed a growing feeling of listlessness. She had no energy. Her mind was foggy. She felt disconnected. She leaned against a tree, her body weary, her spirit weary.

She ran her hand along the rough bark, the texture a stark contrast to the soft memories that haunted her. She felt a profound sense of loss, a void that seemed impossible to fill.

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