depressed - Story 26544 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The discovery came unexpectedly, a casual glance at her daughter's tablet. The other account was brimming with sarcastic comments and angry rants directed at their family. The anger of her daughter was so strong, so consuming. It felt like she was being punched in the gut.

She sat heavily on the bed, the screen's glow reflecting in her widened eyes. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic rhythm against the quiet evening. The world around her seemed to shrink, the walls closing in.

She felt a wave of icy dread wash over her. There was a knot in her stomach, making her feel queasy.

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