depressed - Story 26536 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Hey," she heard a voice say, and she jerked, startled. Her friend, Sarah, stood beside her in the quad, a concerned expression etched on her face. "You haven't spoken in days. What's wrong?"

She swallowed hard, trying to force a smile. “Nothing.” The word felt hollow, devoid of any genuine emotion. The lie tasted like ash on her tongue.

The sunshine felt too bright. The birds’ chirping too loud. Everything seemed too much, and she wanted nothing more than to curl up in a ball and disappear.

She shook her head, unable to speak, and turned away.

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