The email sat in his inbox, the subject line a stark, accusing accusation. He read it, then reread it, each word a fresh stab. He felt a hollowness in his chest, a deep ache that seemed to spread through his entire being. He hadn't left his room in days, the world outside feeling hostile and unwelcoming.

Sleep had become a distant memory. He tossed and turned, replaying the events in his head, the details blurring together into a chaotic mess. The food he ordered was still unopened. He had no motivation to do anything, the energy had just drained from his body. Every thought was a struggle, his mind a tangled web of despair.

He felt the sudden, stinging burn behind his eyes, a dam about to burst. He buried his face in his hands, letting the tears flow freely.

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
own0.311
😔0.309
Suppressed:
de-0.492
B-0.393
P-0.352
l-0.310
!-0.307