sad - Story 120083 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The shovel felt heavy in Emily's grip. Watching the burly landscapers begin to dig the post holes made her stomach lurch. She’d always found solace in her garden, a space overflowing with life and color. Now, the prospect of a fence dividing her space felt like a betrayal.

She walked towards her garden, then stopped, head bent. The scent of damp earth usually uplifted her, but today it felt cloying, a reminder of the seeds of hope that had failed to sprout.

Her shoulders trembled as the roar of the auger filled the air. She didn't have the strength to tell them to stop.

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