depressed - Story 26639 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun was shining, but the brightness only served to amplify the shadows within. Emily sat on the porch swing, watching the world move on without her. Her days were a blur of inactivity, a slow, draining tide.

She found the letter in a box of keepsakes, a letter to her younger self, full of hopes and dreams.

She read, *I feel like I'm sinking*. She recalled a time when nothing sparked interest, when the future seemed bleak.

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