depressed - Story 26559 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread, usually a comfort, only served to amplify the emptiness within Rachel. Her roommate, Sam, was bubbling with plans to adopt a playful pug. The thought of walks, and all the attention the dog would need, felt like a weight.

She sat on the balcony, watching the world move on, oblivious to her. The city's sounds, a symphony of life, felt distant and unappealing. The prospect of social interaction with Sam, she just couldn't muster the strength to engage.

Sam, brimming with excitement, brought her a cup of tea. Rachel just took a sip, the tea tasting like ash. The pug, the joy, the chaos… it felt like another storm she couldn’t weather.

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