He hadn't been to his workshop in days. The tools lay scattered, gathering dust. The wood, once a source of immense satisfaction, now held no appeal. He'd seen it everywhere, his "Caramel Crumbles" recipe, now being sold in every corner shop in the city.

He found himself sitting in his armchair, staring blankly at the wall. The silence was deafening. The vibrant colors of his world had faded into shades of grey.

He felt a deep sense of disquiet, a feeling of being utterly, completely lost. The world had lost its flavor. He just wanted to be alone.

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