depressed - Story 26908 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The campus suddenly felt hostile. The announcement hung in the air, a physical presence. Everything, even the cheerful chatter of her classmates, grated on Emily. Each step felt heavy. She was overwhelmed.

She avoided her usual haunts, her friends, her routines. The library, her refuge, now seemed to taunt her with its unattainable promise of escape. She couldn’t bring herself to open a book.

Back in her dorm room, she stared at her reflection in the mirror. She barely recognized herself, the eyes devoid of light. She wanted to disappear. The feeling was a heavy blanket, making her want to just go to sleep.

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