sad - Story 120124 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sterile environment of the airport terminal seemed to amplify the crushing weight of the situation. I stared at the blinking screen, the words "Delayed Indefinitely" a brutal slap in the face. My brother’s graduation, a moment he'd worked tirelessly for, was going to happen without me.

My throat felt constricted. I closed my eyes, trying to conjure the image of his smiling face, but it only brought a fresh wave of something akin to emptiness. The bustling crowds, the excited chatter of other passengers, seemed to exist in a different world from the one I was inhabiting.

My knuckles were white as I clenched my fists. A single tear escaped, tracing a path down my cheek. I felt a profound sense of isolation.

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