The box had been left in the communal hallway. The name "Emily Carter" meant nothing to him. He felt hollow, as if a part of him had been chipped away. He had nothing to look forward to.

He brought the box into his apartment, setting it down with a thud. The interior felt cold and unwelcoming. He didn't bother to open it, he was too weary to care about its contents. He just sat, staring at the wall, the world outside a distant hum he barely registered.

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