sad - Story 120115 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“You’ve got the power, son,” the football coach boomed, patting Michael on the shoulder. “We need you at offensive line.” Michael forced a smile. He felt a hollowness in the pit of his stomach. He loved running the ball.

He sat on the bleachers, watching his teammates practice their plays. His usual exuberance was replaced by a sense of detachment. He could see himself on the field, but it wasn't the same.

The vibrant green field, usually a source of inspiration and joy, now seemed distant and uninviting. His throat tightened, and he looked away.

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