depressed - Story 26535 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The campus cafeteria bustled with life, but she felt utterly detached, a ghost moving through a vibrant crowd. The laughter, the animated conversations, the sheer optimism of youth – all of it grated on her nerves. She felt a profound sense of isolation, a disconnect from everyone around her.

She picked at her salad, the fresh greens losing all appeal. The revelation had stolen her appetite, along with her motivation. Everything felt pointless. The classes, the exams, the future she had carefully planned – all of it seemed meaningless.

She pushed her tray away, unable to stomach another bite.

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