sad - Story 120090 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He kicked a small stone across his yard, the action aimless and without feeling. The fence was going up, dividing his space, and his thoughts circled. He couldn't seem to focus on anything besides the loss.

He felt a deep, pervasive ache in his chest, a sensation that made it hard to breathe. The scent of the freshly stained wood felt like a suffocating blanket.

He pulled his baseball cap lower over his eyes, shielding himself from the world, and walked further into his own yard, far away from all the noise.

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