sad - Story 120038 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The restaurant buzzed around Leo, but he was deaf to the chatter. He stared down at the menu, but his gaze was fixed on the book resting next to it. “Leo Maxwell: The Unexpected Journey.” The irony was bitter. Nothing about this felt unexpected; it felt like a nightmare.

He felt a tightening in his chest, making each breath laboured. The aroma of food, which usually enticed him, now turned his stomach. He felt a wave of nausea. He pushed the book away, his hands trembling. He found himself staring out the window, at the passing people, and felt utterly disconnected.

He wanted to scream but couldn't even manage a whimper.

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