sad - Story 120001 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the gallery window, mirroring the storm inside Amelia. She slumped onto a velvet bench, the hushed murmurs of the opening reception a distant drone. All her pieces, years of painstaking work, were on display, but her triumph felt hollow.

Then she saw it – a flash of color on the bicep of a woman across the room. A perfect, miniature replica of her "Ephemeral Bloom" series. Disbelief warred with a peculiar ache in her chest.

She trailed after the woman, heart thudding a frantic rhythm against her ribs. When she got close enough to see the detail, the woman caught her eye and smiled, oblivious. Amelia found herself unable to speak. The woman's joy only compounded the hollowness in her.

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
`S`	0.384
`无法`	0.341
`L`	0.337

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.749
`la`	-0.614
`l`	-0.471
`/`	-0.350
`!`	-0.322