sad - Story 120071 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows, mirroring the way Amelia felt inside. She pulled the blanket tighter around her, the weight a small comfort against the emptiness clawing at her chest. For months, she’d confided in “StarryNight88” about everything – the loneliness, the feeling of being adrift. He was the anchor she never knew she needed. Now, the bus was pulling to a stop at her usual spot.

She scrolled through her phone. A message. “Hey, just saw you get off the bus. You alright? You looked… down.” Her heart lurched. Could it be? She peered out the window, her breath catching in her throat. A boy was standing there, a familiar smile crinkling his eyes, holding up a phone displaying her profile picture.

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