He didn't want them. He shoved the carnations into a vase, the bright pink blooms feeling garish. He didn't want the attention, the unspoken gesture. He simply wanted to be left alone.

He slumped onto the floor, leaning against the cold wall. The apartment was a mess, mirroring his inner state. The flowers mocked him with their cheerfulness. He felt a wave of nausea. He closed his eyes, and a single sob escaped his lips.

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