sad - Story 120068 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Are you okay?” Sarah’s friend asked, her voice laced with concern. Sarah just shook her head, unable to speak. The rejection was a blow. Without that scholarship, her hopes for a new start, for a better life, felt shattered.

She sat on the park bench, her gaze fixed on the children playing in the distance. The sounds of their laughter felt alien, almost cruel. Her mind replayed the events, each time ending with the same unwanted result.

She wrapped her arms around herself, seeking a comfort that simply wasn't there. She felt like she wanted to cry. She didn't.

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