"Unbelievable," Clara muttered, the word a bitter taste on her tongue. The discovery felt like a personal affront, as if she had been personally betrayed. She’d spent countless hours immersed in the worlds crafted by Jasper Kane, his intricate plots and beautiful prose transporting her to other realms. She felt a deep ache in her chest.

She abruptly closed her laptop, the screen reflecting her own stunned expression. She felt a profound sense of loss, as if something precious had been taken from her. The vibrant colors of the living room seemed to have faded, replaced by muted tones.

Clara wandered over to the window, gazing out at the bustling street below. The world continued its relentless march, oblivious to the upheaval in her own small corner of it. She felt completely adrift.

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
πŸ˜”0.405
S0.384
无法0.341
L0.337
Suppressed:
de-0.749
la-0.614
l-0.471
/-0.350
!-0.322