sad - Story 120108 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The smell of fresh paint hung in the air, a stark contrast to the stale scent of the office, which always smelled of coffee and desperation. "And this is where we keep all the… important files," Sarah, the trainee, said, her voice bright. I hated her, and I hated myself for it.

I trailed behind her, unable to meet her gaze. The walls seemed to close in, the air heavy. I clutched my mug. The ceramic was smooth and cold against my skin. I should have felt relieved. Instead, every gesture, every interaction, left me feeling… hollow.

My mouth tasted like ash. I wished it was over.

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