The attic stairs creaked under Liam's weight as he ascended. The air thickened with dust and the scent of forgotten memories. He wasn't sure why he came up here.

His sister, Olivia, was already there, sifting through a trunk of old photographs. Her fingers moved slowly, as though afraid to touch them.

He stood beside her, the air around him still and quiet. He glanced at the photos of his grandmother, young and happy. A silent wave of something he could not express crashed over him.

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