The vibrant colors of the art gallery mocked Liam, as he wandered through the exhibit listlessly. The joy he’d once found in the creative energy of others felt as though it had completely dissipated. He felt as though he was moving through molasses. A text: β€œIs Mark with you? He's supposed to be here with me. No answer.” He felt his pulse quicken, a cold sweat breaking out on his forehead.

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
每倩0.353
无法0.330
own0.311
πŸ˜”0.309
Suppressed:
de-0.492
B-0.393
P-0.352
l-0.310
!-0.307