sad - Story 120119 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The ice rink shimmered under the bright lights, but all Amelia saw was a blur. She was asked to change from defense to goalie. The most daunting position on the team.

The rasp of skates on ice, the shouts from the coach, they all washed over her. She usually felt a surge of excitement, a thrill. Now, she wanted to be left alone.

She clutched her hockey stick, the wood cold against her gloves. Her throat felt tight, and her eyes stung. The familiar joy she found on the ice had vanished, replaced by a hollow ache.

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