depressed - Story 26533 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee tasted bitter, a perfect reflection of her current mood. She sat in the library, the quiet hum of the room doing little to soothe the turmoil within. She had always prided herself on being organized, on having a plan. The discovery had shattered everything. The weight of the lie, the misplaced trust, suffocated her.

She had spent hours staring at the ceiling, wondering if there was something wrong with her.

She traced patterns on the condensation of her glass. The meticulous diagrams of the study books mocked her. The thought of speaking to someone felt like an insurmountable climb.

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