The aroma of freshly cut grass, usually a source of comfort, felt foreign to Emily. She forced a smile as she approached the team, but the gesture felt like a mask, clumsy and ill-fitting. The coach’s words resonated in her mind.

A hollowness seemed to consume her. She could feel the stares of her teammates, their curiosity, their pity. She averted her eyes, unable to meet their gaze.

She wanted to be alone. She wanted to escape. Her steps felt heavy as she walked away.

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