sad - Story 120018 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone lay on the table, a constant reminder. Her brother, Daniel, had converted to Hinduism. Every glance at it brought forth a fresh wave of despair. The usual vibrancy of her home felt muted, the air thick with unspoken things.

She wandered aimlessly through the rooms, unable to settle. She picked up a photo of them as children, smiling, carefree. The image triggered a fresh wave of emotion. She gripped it tightly, as if it could somehow hold back the tide.

She felt a hollowness, a void that seemed impossible to fill. The simple act of breathing felt like an effort. Her vision blurred, tears threatening to spill over.

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