depressed - Story 26906 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like someone had ripped the ground out from under Chloe. She had built her life around this school. Her friends, her classes, her future - all were intertwined with the institution that was now… crumbling.

She walked through the campus, each familiar building now a painful reminder of what she was losing. The library, the cafeteria, the student union, each place resonated with a pain she couldn't describe. She found herself clutching her chest.

She went to her favorite coffee shop, but the aroma, usually comforting, was now sickening. She couldn't drink a single sip. Instead, she just sat there, watching the other students, their conversations, their lives, feeling a sense of profound isolation.

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