depressed - Story 26566 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun blazed, a cruel reminder of the vibrant world she was missing. Olivia slumped on the sofa, the remote control lifeless in her hand. Her birthday and David’s party all collided. She was expected to celebrate. She wasn't certain she could.

Her phone buzzed with an invitation from David, a reminder of the afternoon. She ignored it, letting the message disappear into the digital ether. The thought of interacting, of being “on,” felt exhausting. She knew the party would be boisterous, filled with laughter she couldn't share.

She wrapped her arms around herself, trying to ward off the chill that seemed to emanate from within. The curtains were drawn, and the room was dim, mirroring the darkness inside.

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