The attic’s darkness pressed in. Sarah ran a hand along a dusty bookshelf, her movements slow and deliberate. She’d hoped to feel something, anything other than this vast indifference.

She found a box filled with old photographs. A young couple, arms entwined, laughing. Their smiles were contagious. She wasn't smiling.

She closed her eyes, the images imprinted on her eyelids. She felt a chill, despite the heat of the day.

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