depressed - Story 26697 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rejection email sat in his inbox, the words cold and clinical. His shoulders slumped, the weight of the disappointment pressing down on him. He felt every muscle weaken. He rubbed his temples, a dull headache pounding behind his eyes.

He didn't bother to reply, the usual professional niceties feeling like a betrayal of his own feelings. He deleted the message. The tasks on his list seemed impossible to complete.

He closed his eyes, his mind replaying the interview, the hopes, the expectations, all now shattered. His world had lost its colours. He felt hollowed out, empty.

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