depressed - Story 26540 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the knowledge crushed her. She wandered the city streets aimlessly, the vibrant urban landscape failing to lift the gloom that engulfed her. Each building, each face, each car seemed to mock her. The air felt thick, difficult to breathe.

She kept replaying the conversation in her head, the crisp tone, the cold facts. Her scholarship was a mistake. She wasn't meant to be here.

She stopped walking, staring at the ground, overwhelmed by the emptiness that consumed her.

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