sad - Story 120010 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't touched his paints in weeks. Oliver sat on the porch, the setting sun painting the sky with colors he could no longer feel. He had stopped sleeping properly. He felt heavy, weighted down by something he couldn't name.

His friend called, excitedly gushing about a new tattoo. Oliver saw the photo. A near-perfect rendition of his "Phoenix Rising" on the friend’s shoulder. Gratitude mixed with something akin to jealousy.

He closed his eyes, the image seared behind his eyelids. He felt the cold air on his skin and shivered. He felt like he had been robbed of something precious, a part of himself.

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