sad - Story 120107 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clicking of keyboards filled the room, a relentless rhythm that seemed to amplify the silence inside him. Michael pointed to the server room, his hand trembling slightly. This was the hub of everything; the core of the operation. He had been its guardian for so long.

He watched, with a strange detachment, as the new technician, Robert, listened intently. The air in the room felt thick with unspoken things. Michael felt a sudden urge to flee, to escape the suffocating reality of the situation. He felt a dull ache in his chest, a sensation he couldn't name.

His stomach churned. He excused himself, suddenly.

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