She kept rearranging the furniture in her living room, a futile attempt to fill the void. The objects felt alien, out of place, no matter how she moved them. The room, usually a haven of cozy familiarity, now echoed with emptiness.

The calendar on the fridge displayed the date in bold letters, a stark reminder of the impending move. The words “Goodbye Party” felt like a cruel joke. She had to attend, smile, and pretend.

Her stomach churned. Each breath felt like an effort. She stood in the middle of the room, surrounded by her belongings, and felt utterly, completely alone. The future seemed like a vast, unnavigable ocean.

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