depressed - Story 26673 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Professor Reynolds is leaving?" Sarah's voice was flat, devoid of inflection, a mere echo of her usual bright self. Her friend, Mark, offered a comforting pat on her shoulder. "Yeah, I saw the email. Rough news, huh?"

She nodded, unable to meet his gaze. A knot tightened in her chest, making it hard to breathe. The world seemed to shrink around her, the vibrant colors of the campus fading to monochrome.

Her appetite vanished. She picked at her lunch, then left it untouched. The thought of all the work she had to do, the revisions, the presentations, all seemed pointless now. A heavy, leaden feeling enveloped her.

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