The house was too quiet, the silence pressing down on her like a physical weight. Every creak of the floorboards, every whisper of the wind, seemed to amplify her feelings. She'd been avoiding the cellar, the damp air and the shadows reminding her of the darker parts of herself. It was in the cellar that she found a loose brick, which revealed a small lever. Pulling the lever caused a section of the wall to rotate, unveiling a small, hidden room.

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