sad - Story 120099 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at his reflection, surprised by the gauntness of his face. The familiar surroundings of his bedroom felt alien, a stage set for a life he no longer recognized. He hadn't slept properly in days.

His parents tried to engage him, offering comfort and reassurance. Their words of encouragement felt like hollow echoes, failing to penetrate the thick wall of numbness he had erected.

The evening air held a chill, mirroring the coldness within. He sat on the porch swing, listening to the crickets, the sound a mournful chorus. He couldn't shake the feeling of being utterly, completely lost.

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