The hum of the refrigerator was the only sound in the apartment. James felt a deep sense of disconnect. His online friend, "SilverSurfer," had been a constant companion in this isolation. He had shared his thoughts and insecurities, finding a safe space to vent.

A text message blinked on his phone. “Hey, I’m at the coffee shop down the street. Come meet me. First one’s on me.” James sighed, but his fingers responded before he even thought about it.

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