He used to spend hours collecting and meticulously organizing his baseball card collection, reliving old games and remembering players. The binder now sat closed, untouched. The memories, once a source of comfort, now felt like a painful echo. His son, Ethan, however, had inherited his father’s passion, his eyes gleaming with excitement as he studied the cards. He felt a sting when Ethan asked him about the legendary players, and he found he could barely speak, a heavy weight pressing down on his chest.

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