depressed - Story 26997 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a physical blow. Sarah stumbled back, her hand flying to her mouth. Her college essay, a detailed account of her battle with anorexia, was now being showcased as an example.

She’d been doing so well, or so she thought. She had a therapist, medication, a new life. But now, it felt as though the past had clawed its way back, dragging her under. The apartment felt suffocating.

She wandered aimlessly through the rooms, unable to find a single source of pleasure. The sunlight felt oppressive, the silence deafening. She felt the familiar pull of self-criticism, a harsh voice whispering insidious doubts. The essay, a declaration of survival, suddenly felt like a threat. She couldn't breathe.

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