The vibrant city seemed to mock her low spirits. Chloe, sitting at her desk, had found solace in the words of "WhisperingWillow." They had connected over shared creative passions and had a mutual appreciation for nature. Now the weight was heavier than ever.

A note slid under her door. It read, "Meet me at the park? I think you need some sunshine." It was signed, "Willow." Chloe closed her eyes, imagining the gentle breeze. A small smile flickered across her face.

Emotion: sad

Cluster: Sadness / Despair
PC1 (Valence): -2.52 Negative
PC2 (Disposition): -1.50

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion sad. 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 sad stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the sad emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the sad vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
😞0.436
😔0.405
S0.384
无法0.341
L0.337
Suppressed:
de-0.749
la-0.614
l-0.471
/-0.350
!-0.322