sad - Story 120073 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chipped mug of lukewarm tea sat untouched on the table. Maya couldn't bring herself to care. Everything felt… muted. She hadn’t left her apartment in days. Her online friend, “BookwormBea,” knew all about her predicament, her struggles to stay motivated. BookwormBea had always had a way of lifting Maya's spirits.

A knock echoed through the quiet apartment. Hesitantly, she opened the door. There stood Bea, holding a book, her eyes wide with concern. “I… I was worried,” Bea stammered, then wrapped her in a hug. Maya leaned into the embrace, a flicker of warmth igniting deep inside her.

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