sad - Story 120034 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bookstore felt oppressively bright, the scent of fresh ink and paper a mocking reminder. Daniel saw his name, bold and stark, on the cover: “The Quiet Life of Daniel Harding.” He’d always been a creature of shadows, a collector of small moments. Now, those moments were being hawked.

He ran a hand through his hair, the gesture frantic. His stomach twisted, an uncomfortable knot forming. He wanted to disappear, to become invisible. He felt a desperate urge to flee, to escape this public exposure. He felt a great ache in his core, which spread outwards.

He grabbed a copy, the cover searing his fingertips. He felt an intense desire to tear it to shreds.

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