sad - Story 120007 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the market stalls seemed to mock Sarah’s grey mood. The bustling crowds usually invigorated her. Today, she just wanted to disappear. She clutched a cup of lukewarm tea, the warmth doing nothing to thaw the chill inside.

She had just been admiring a vibrant portrait when she spied it. A tattoo on a woman's shoulder, an exact copy of her whimsical "Dancing Daisies" illustration. A wave of exhaustion washed over her.

She excused herself and went to find a quiet place to sit down. Every laugh, every conversation around her felt like a stab. The joy was not for her to share.

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