depressed - Story 26658 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bustling city seemed to mock her with its energy. She was supposed to meet friends for dinner, but the thought of socializing felt like a mountain to climb. She wanted to text her friend, Chloe, and confess how everything was a struggle. She started to type "I can't..." and with a misclick, the message was sent to a colleague she barely knew.

The accidental text felt like a personal failure. The knot in her stomach tightened. She quickly typed an explanation, but felt her face flush with shame. She wanted to dissolve, to become invisible. The world was too much. The noise, the people, the expectations; it was all too hard. She turned and ran in the opposite direction.

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