depressed - Story 26889 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Everything felt like a chore to Chloe. Getting out of bed. Making breakfast. Even breathing. Each task required Herculean effort. She was stuck.

Across the street, Mr. Jones, who ran the local dry cleaner and always seemed to be pinching pennies, was having an outdoor wedding reception. Tables laden with food, a live band. The music drifted across the street, a joyous sound that felt like an insult.

Chloe covered her ears, and the sound continued to invade her. She pulled the covers over her head, wishing for oblivion.

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