The vibrant colours of the city seemed to mock her current state. Maya felt like she was trapped in a glass box, observing life from a detached perspective. She had lost all interest in her work, her hobbies, and even the people she loved. She spent her days staring out the window, the world a blur. The notification on her phone read, "You have a new message." It was from a social media site, a link to her half sister's profile. A woman she had never known. Maya didn't even click the link.

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