sad - Story 120067 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the art gallery seemed dull to Sofia. She’d always dreamed of showing her work here, a dream that the scholarship denial had nearly broken. She ran a hand through her hair, the simple gesture failing to provide comfort. She felt a profound sense of deflated enthusiasm.

She walked through the exhibit, the other artists' achievements now seeming to mock her. She wished she had never opened the email. She wanted to retreat, to disappear. She turned away from the crowd, and quietly left.

She was unable to find inspiration, and felt a burning, unpleasant sensation in her stomach.

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