The world outside felt incredibly loud. The constant sounds of the city amplified the discomfort that resonated within Ethan. His soccer team had lost the championship game. All the hard work, all the training, had led to disappointment. He'd come straight home and locked the door behind him. The phone vibrated again, a sudden intrusion in the stillness. A new follower: Coach Miller. His throat closed. He felt an intense need to disappear. He felt like his emotions had been exposed.

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