depressed - Story 26570 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The calendar screamed out the date. It was her birthday. Also, her friend, Jess's. The thought of celebration felt wrong. She had made no plans for herself, and the thought of attending Jess's party was overwhelming.

She sat on the floor, surrounded by cards that she hadn’t opened. Their colorful exteriors mocked her. She felt numb. She didn’t want to respond to the well wishes, the calls, the text messages.

She felt a heavy weariness. She was tired of existing. She got up from the floor and headed to her bed, where she could finally rest.

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