sad - Story 120093 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Want some tea, sweetie?" her mom asked, her voice laced with an overly cheerful tone. Sarah just shook her head, sinking deeper into the oversized armchair. The floral wallpaper of the living room felt suffocating.

She’d spent the day unpacking, a task that should have been cathartic, but instead, it left her feeling hollow. Each object she unearthed, each memory it evoked, seemed to amplify the feeling in her chest.

The evening news played in the background, a cacophony of global woes she couldn't bring herself to care about. As the anchors delivered their report, she looked at the photos she had hung on her wall, the ones she had taken. The subjects' joy seemed so far away now.

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