It was a small package, propped against the door. He was surprised; he hadn't been expecting anything. The name was "Sarah Jones," and it meant absolutely nothing to him. The days had blurred together, a monotonous cycle of routine and empty spaces. A persistent feeling of melancholy weighed down his limbs.

He let the package sit on the kitchen counter, untouched. He didn’t feel like doing anything, not even the simplest of tasks. He wanted to do nothing, be nothing. The feeling was a blanket 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