"I don't know," Martha confessed to the cashier at the lost and found. The wallet felt alien in her hands, a stark contrast to the emptiness inside her. She hadn't left her apartment in days, and this sudden burst of activity made her feel exposed. The clerk's cheerful demeanor grated on her nerves, and the clatter of the busy shop felt like an assault. She just wanted to disappear, to vanish into the anonymity of the city.

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