The sun was shining, but it felt cold. She was standing at her window when she saw the aftermath. The tree, their tree, was gone. She didn't want to go over there.

She felt a physical ache, a tightness in her chest. She stood there for a long time, watching the activity, hearing the distant sounds.

She turned away, shutting the curtains. The house felt like a prison. She knew she'd never be able to sit there, watching them rebuild, without feeling a crushing weight.

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