depressed - Story 26547 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the sudden silence that tipped her off. Her daughter, usually glued to her phone, had put it down and retreated to her room. Curiosity and a gnawing unease drove her to check the device. The second profile revealed a hidden world of anxieties and frustrations. She was paralyzed with disbelief.

She felt a knot form in her stomach. A strange ache settled in her bones. She sank onto the bed, the reality of the situation washing over her.

The room seemed to spin, the world around her tilting and blurring. She felt a profound sense of isolation, even within her own home.

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