The vibrant jerseys of his teammates seemed to mock him. Marcus stood in the shadows, hidden behind the equipment shed, watching the players warm up. He could almost feel the ball in his hands, the adrenaline surging through his veins.

The news still stung. Every movement felt sluggish, as if he were wading through water. A dull throb pulsed in his head.

He turned away, unable to bear the sight any longer. He began walking. His shoulders slumped, his steps slow and heavy.

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