The vibrant colors of the farmers market, once a source of joy, now felt like a taunt. Liam, used to be the star, the creator of the now-famous "Sunset Salsa," now found himself overlooked. He watched his recipe being sold by another vendor, the same ingredients, the same method, but under a new name.

His usual easygoing nature had evaporated, replaced by a hollow feeling. His hands trembled as he watched the crowd around the stall. He felt like he'd lost his voice, his purpose.

He turned away, the bright lights of the market suddenly blinding. The world felt too loud, too busy, too… everything. He just wanted to go home.

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