The silence of the house pressed down on them, heavy and suffocating. David and Chloe walked through the rooms, the hardwood floors echoing with each step.

Chloe stood in the middle of the living room, her arms crossed and her shoulders hunched. The room felt empty, even with all of the furniture.

David walked over to her and rested a hand on her shoulder. The touch seemed to electrify her, and she flinched. The weight of the world was in her eyes.

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