sad - Story 120110 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of it all settled on him as he explained the intricacies of the company's accounting software. He’d known this software inside and out for fifteen years, but today, the commands felt foreign on his tongue. He watched the new girl, Jessica, her brow furrowed in concentration. He felt an intense weariness, a profound sense of… something.

He kept glancing at his watch, the hands ticking slowly towards the end of the day. The afternoon sun cast a harsh light across the room, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. He thought about going home, but the thought of an empty house was even more… disheartening.

He sighed, the sound barely audible.

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