sad - Story 120036 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“This is a joke, right?” Marco muttered, staring at the biography. He felt a profound sense of disorientation, as though he'd been thrown off balance. His life – his secrets, his failures, his triumphs – all laid out for anyone to read. The audacity of it!

He paced his apartment, restless energy coursing through him. He ran a hand through his hair, over and over again. The vibrant colors of his artwork, usually a source of joy, now seemed muted, lifeless. He felt a deep, piercing emptiness.

He stopped, his gaze fixed on the book. He felt a burning need to understand how this had happened, to reclaim some semblance of control.

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