sad - Story 120116 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"We think you would be more valuable at the back," the swim coach said, his tone kind but firm. Elena swallowed hard. She'd always been a sprinter, her explosive speed her defining trait. Now, she was being asked to swim the backstroke.

The cold water of the pool seemed to bite at her skin. The chlorine scent, usually a comfort, now felt oppressive. She took a deep breath, trying to calm the racing beat of her heart.

The cheers of her teammates felt muffled, the sounds a constant, irritating buzz around her. She focused on the tile at the bottom of the pool and tried not to think.

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