sad - Story 120016 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the stained-glass window of his childhood church. His son, Thomas, had declared he was leaving to follow the Baha'i faith. The vibrant colors, usually a source of comfort, now seemed to mock his feelings. A deep emptiness echoed in his soul.

The hymns felt like a distant memory, a past he could no longer reach. He remembered teaching Thomas about faith, about the importance of their church. The memories swirled around him, bittersweet. He clenched his jaw, battling the rising tide of emotion.

He closed his eyes, his head dropping forward. The world around him felt muted, as if drained of color and sound. He felt alone, abandoned.

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