depressed - Story 26707 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The constant pressure in her chest made it difficult to breathe. Maya felt like she was wading through treacle. Everything, from the simplest email to the most mundane task, was a struggle. The vibrant colors of the office seemed dull, the cheerful banter of her colleagues a distant, irritating noise.

She hadn't eaten lunch. She hadn't even felt hungry.

"Maya?" came a voice, soft and hesitant. It was John, who sat across from her.

She looked up, forcing a small smile. It felt unnatural.

"You seem a little… preoccupied," John observed gently. "I was just remembering Camp Willow Creek. The bonfires were legendary."

Maya's eyes widened, her posture straightening slightly. Willow Creek. The place was a forgotten memory she had pushed far from 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