depressed - Story 26573 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt muted to Maya, the colors drained from everything. Even the vibrant street art that usually filled her with joy seemed flat, lifeless. She found herself staring at the crack in the pavement at her feet for an hour, transfixed by its intricate, meaningless pattern.

She had driven hours to see her childhood companion, Ben. He'd looked at her, tilting his head, and his brow furrowed in confusion. "I have no recollection of you," he’d said gently. He was polite, friendly, but he didn't know her. The news had sunk her, and she suddenly didn't want to go back.

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