depressed - Story 26520 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The city lights blurred outside the window, reflecting the disarray within. Emily traced circles on the condensation, the cold glass mirroring the chill within her. She pulled her blanket tighter, wishing she could disappear into it. The cutting words of the coach had taken their toll.

She had always defined herself by the sport. Now, she felt like nothing. The laughter from the street felt distant, alien. She didn't want to see anyone or talk to anyone. She wanted to be left alone.

She closed her eyes, trying to block out the world. The world felt like it was still spinning, and she was falling.

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