sad - Story 120065 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cafeteria buzzed with the usual Friday afternoon energy, but for Maya, it was a dull drone. The rejection letter, still fresh in her mind, had stolen her appetite. She pushed her untouched pasta around her plate, the once-enticing aroma now sickening.

Her friends were chattering, laughing, oblivious to her inner turmoil. She forced a weak smile, trying to feign interest in their conversation, but the effort was exhausting. The weight of her disappointment settled heavily on her shoulders.

She excused herself, unable to bear the cheerful atmosphere any longer. As she walked away, the noise receded, and she felt a wave of isolation wash over her. She just wanted to be alone.

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