The sun was high in the sky, but he couldn’t feel its warmth. His chest felt heavy, as if a great weight had settled upon him. The details of the account, now burned into his memory, became a constant torment. He thought about the trust he had shattered.

He found himself wandering aimlessly through the apartment, each room triggering a fresh wave of despair. He stopped and stared at their wedding photo, the smiles of the two looking back, now seemed so distant.

He felt trapped, unable to escape the crushing weight of his guilt. The air seemed thick and stale. He slumped onto the couch, his body heavy, his spirit broken. He closed his eyes, wishing for an end to the ceaseless, painful thoughts.

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