sad - Story 120103 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The office felt too bright, the air conditioning too cold. Maya watched as Clara, her replacement, confidently navigated the sales database. It was a skill that Maya had honed over a decade, a skill that now felt like a lead weight in her chest. She kept finding herself fiddling with her wedding ring, turning it around and around her finger.

Clara asked about the best clients, the ones with the big accounts. Maya showed her, her hand trembling slightly as she pointed. She answered each question, but her responses felt hollow, devoid of any genuine enthusiasm. Her gaze kept drifting to the framed photograph on her desk: her, beaming, at her retirement party.

A wave of… something… washed over her, and she suddenly excused herself, needing air, needing to escape the suffocating closeness of the room.

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