sad - Story 120009 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gallery felt vast and empty. Maya’s opening had been a disaster. Hardly anyone had turned up, and the few who had seemed indifferent. She felt exposed, vulnerable. She wanted to be somewhere else.

Then she saw it. A girl’s ankle, adorned with a tattoo of one of her most personal pieces, “Echoes in the Void”. The girl caught her eye and gave a bright smile. Maya could only manage a strained nod.

A feeling of helplessness settled on her like a shroud. The work suddenly felt tainted, cheapened. The emptiness of the gallery seemed to expand, engulfing 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