depressed - Story 26575 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the house was deafening. Clara wandered through the rooms of her home like a ghost, her footsteps echoing on the wooden floors. She hadn't bothered to water the plants, and the air in the house was thick with the scent of dried leaves. It was suffocating.

Meeting her old friend, Olivia, after so many years, was supposed to be a joyous occasion. Instead, Olivia stared at her, blinked, and shook her head, confusion clouding her eyes. “I truly do not know you,” she'd confessed. The shock was a cold wave. The hollowness had settled in.

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