sad - Story 120117 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cricket bat felt heavy in Rohan’s hands. He'd always been the opening batsman, the one tasked with setting the tone for the innings. He had a natural flair for scoring. The coach’s news was a shock. Now, he was being asked to bowl.

He tried to focus on his grip, his stance, but his mind kept wandering. The other players' excited chatter sounded distant, almost mocking. He didn't know how to bowl.

The bright afternoon sun felt harsh against his skin. He closed his eyes, seeking a brief respite from the feeling of unease that had settled in his bones.

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