depressed - Story 26504 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The relentless barking pierced Sarah’s fragile peace. She flinched, her hands flying to cover her ears. Another jailbreak. She peered through the blinds, already knowing what she'd see.

She hadn't eaten all day. The thought of preparing food was overwhelming. Even the simplest tasks, like showering, felt monumental. She just wanted to remain in her bed, in the cool darkness.

The incessant noise was grating on her nerves. The joy in the dog's bark only magnified her own feeling of being trapped and unable to escape.

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