sad - Story 120118 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“We think your talents can be better utilized in the outfield,” Coach Johnson announced with a casualness that grated on Liam's nerves. As the star catcher, Liam was the bedrock of the team. Now, his role was being diminished.

He sat in the dugout, fiddling with his mitt, unable to meet his teammates' gazes. The pre-game energy, usually a source of adrenaline, now felt hollow. The cheers and jeers from the crowd sounded like meaningless noise.

The familiar scent of the ballpark felt acrid, the taste of dust on his tongue. Everything seemed dull.

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