depressed - Story 26650 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah dragged herself through the day, each task an insurmountable obstacle. Her favorite mug, adorned with a silly cartoon, brought no cheer. The vibrant colors of her workspace seemed muted, lifeless. Her limbs felt heavy, and her movements slow.

She tried to concentrate on her work, but her mind wandered. She overheard snippets of conversation, the whispers growing louder. She felt a growing sense of dread. The smiles around her felt forced.

The news came as a physical blow. The company was being sold. The words swam before her eyes, blurring into a meaningless jumble. She felt a cold dread creep into her core. She felt like a piece of furniture, suddenly unwanted.

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