Her hands were shaking as she clutched the phone. The news, delivered with casual disregard, landed like a physical blow. Her "Velvet Vanilla Bean Ice Cream," her grandmother's treasured recipe, was now being sold as "Celestial Cream" by a well-known ice cream parlor.

She retreated to her apartment, the walls closing in. The vibrant, bustling city outside seemed impossibly far away. Her appetite was gone. She felt like she was trapped in a thick fog, unable to see or feel anything clearly.

She crawled into bed, pulling the covers over her head, wishing the world would simply disappear.

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