sad - Story 120079 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house seemed to shrink around Sarah, the corners closing in on her. She felt overwhelmed, lost. Her online connection with “NeonNerd” was a refuge. They bonded over their shared love of video games, but she told him all of her concerns. Now, nothing felt real.

Her phone buzzed, and the door to her flat knocked simultaneously. A pizza delivery guy stood on her porch, glancing toward the sound of laughter in the nearby street. Standing there was NeonNerd, the personification of her online friend. A genuine smile touched her lips.

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