He didn't know why he'd come up here. The house felt empty. The scent of pine and fresh paint couldn't dispel the gloom that had been hanging over him. He started, finding a faded scrapbook.

He flipped through the brittle pages. A collage of ticket stubs, dried flowers, and handwritten notes. The handwriting varied, some joyful, others wistful. He felt the weight in his chest.

The attic felt like a mausoleum of other people's memories, and his own seemed lost.

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