depressed - Story 26677 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant autumn leaves seemed dull, the crisp air unremarkable. The news of Professor Schmidt’s leaving had stolen the joy from everything. The world had lost its luster.

She skipped her run, the familiar endorphin rush not worth the effort. Her favorite music, once a solace, now felt like a taunt.

Her meals were haphazard. She picked at her food, pushing it around her plate. The thought of eating, of anything, was a chore. The project she had envisioned seemed insurmountable.

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