depressed - Story 26555 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the apartment felt thick and stagnant, reflecting the turmoil inside Amelia. Her roommate, Chloe, was bubbling with excitement about adopting a rescued bunny. Amelia felt a cold dread creep into her stomach whenever Chloe brought up the topic.

She sat on her bed, staring at the ceiling, the patterns of the plaster uninteresting and lifeless. Her usual hobbies, reading and listening to music, felt like chores. She hadn't even bothered to shower, and the idea of doing so was exhausting.

Chloe had left for a shift at the bookstore. The silence of the apartment felt less comforting than usual, the quiet amplifying her internal struggles. She felt detached, as if watching her life from behind a sheet of glass. The rabbit, the extra work, the noise… she just couldn’t.

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