sad - Story 120049 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The demolition had uncovered a hidden sadness within her, something she hadn’t fully acknowledged. Each crash and rumble from the construction site triggered a fresh wave of it. She hadn't left her apartment all day.

She knew she should tidy up, go for a walk, do anything to break the cycle. But she remained motionless, staring at the ceiling, feeling the weight of the day settle on her shoulders. The pounding of the hammer sounded like the beating of her own heart.

She tried to breathe deeply, but the air felt heavy and thick. She wanted to scream, but no sound would come. She was lost and alone, like a room stripped bare.

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