sad - Story 120075 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt gray and flat, devoid of color or joy. Emily stared out the window, watching the rain blur the city lights. She’d shared everything with "PixelatedPrincess," the virtual confidante who had become her world. Now, the emptiness felt all-consuming.

She heard a tap at her window. A girl, her face framed by the soft glow of her phone screen, was standing outside, waving. PixelatedPrincess, her avatar come to life. Emily felt a tiny spark of something, a tiny movement of her heart.

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