sad - Story 120037 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news had just broken, and Eliza was sitting in her garden, her favourite spot, when the book was dropped in her lap. The vibrant colors of the flowers around her seemed to mock her. The air tasted stale, heavy. She felt as though she had been punched, winded and helpless.

She picked up the tome, and the pages felt like burning coals in her hands. The narrative felt like a trap, and her own life, once a private sanctuary, felt like a cage. She took a deep breath, but it brought no relief.

She felt a hollowness, a deep void, that seemed to grow with each passing moment.

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