sad - Story 120005 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the empty apartment pressed in on Evelyn. Days had blurred into a monotonous cycle of work and isolation. She felt a profound weariness, a deep-seated depletion that made the simplest tasks feel monumental. She had lost her mojo.

A notification pinged on her phone. Someone had tagged her. Her stomach lurched. The image was of a man's arm, meticulously inked with her intricate "Celestial Dance" design. Her heart sank.

She felt a hollowness she couldn't explain. A sensation like all the air had been expelled from the room. She closed her eyes, and the darkness felt oddly comforting.

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