depressed - Story 26939 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doorbell. Another day. Another wave of dread. This time, a delivery. A simple, brown box. Inside, a collection of mixed wildflowers. No card. Emily didn't want to open it.

She stood frozen in the doorway, the flowers a sudden, unwelcome burst of color against the backdrop of her bleak existence. The scent of the flowers was a punch to the gut. She’d lost interest in everything. Her apartment felt like a prison.

She kicked the box across the floor, the wildflowers scattering. She wanted to scream. She wanted to… disappear. The weight in her chest was crushing.

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