The streetlights cast long, dancing shadows as David knelt beside the found wallet. The money was a fortune, enough to solve all of his current problems, and yet he felt nothing. He felt the cold seep into his bones, and felt the chill in his gut. The silence of the night pressed in on him, amplifying the hollowness within. He imagined the owner’s face, the loss they’d be feeling, and a strange sort of empathy filled the space where joy should have been.

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