depressed - Story 26527 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant tapestry of her life had begun to unravel. The thread that connected her to happiness had been broken, severed by the news of Finch. The betrayal felt like a physical blow.

She found herself unable to focus on anything. Her work suffered, her relationships strained. The world was a blur of noise and activity.

She sat on the edge of the bed, her shoulders slumped. The light from the window seemed harsh, unkind. She knew that there was a long journey ahead.

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