depressed - Story 26993 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Maya’s hands trembled as she scrolled through the website. Her essay, about overcoming her social anxiety to join the debate team, was emblazoned across the screen. The image of the team photo, her grinning self, felt alien.

Her dorm room felt cold, even with the heater blasting. The vibrant posters she once carefully placed on the walls felt like an obligation. The joy of college life, the vibrant energy of campus, all seemed so far away, a shimmering illusion. The essay, a testament to her progress, now felt like a performance.

She wanted to scream, to shatter the carefully constructed façade she’d been building for years. The words, once so carefully chosen to portray strength, now felt hollow, echoing the emptiness she felt inside. She pulled the covers over her head, wishing she could disappear.

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