sad - Story 120035 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the library pressed in on her. The book, “Eleanor Vance: A Portrait of Resilience,” felt like a brick in her hands. She had spent her life cultivating an image of strength. Now, the world would see the cracks. The carefully constructed façade crumbled.

Her breath hitched in her chest. The polished wood of the table seemed to mock her. She felt exposed, vulnerable, stripped of her armor. Each chapter was a blow, each sentence a violation.

She pressed her palms together, as though trying to contain the emotional flood within her. The ache in her heart intensified.

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