“Another one?” his therapist asked, her voice gentle. Emily just nodded, unable to meet her gaze. The invitation, crumpled in her hand, felt like a judgment.

The room smelled of stale coffee and forced cheer. Outside, the city roared with a life she couldn't connect with.

She had spent the last hour staring at the blank page in her journal, unable to string together even a single sentence. All she could feel was a deep, pervasive weariness. The world was a vast, indifferent expanse.

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