depressed - Story 26935 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flowers arrived in the afternoon, a burst of color against the monochrome of Eleanor's life. A mix of wildflowers, carelessly arranged, but undeniably cheerful. She hadn't left the house in a week, and the sun, streaming in through the window, felt like an enemy.

She stood at the counter, her hands clasped, staring at them. Who, out there, was aware of her internal state? Did someone know she’d lost interest in everything? Did they even know she existed? The flowers whispered a truth that she couldn't face.

A single tear traced a path down her cheek, leaving her feeling even emptier. She didn't want the joy. She didn't deserve it.

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