sad - Story 120130 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold, impersonal atmosphere of the airport seemed to amplify the frustration. I watched, dejected, as my flight to Denver, which would have allowed me to attend my son's high school graduation, was delayed. The buzzing crowd, the excitement of other travellers, felt like an insult.

I sank into a chair, letting out a heavy sigh. The missed milestone felt like a physical blow. The thought of being absent during such a momentous occasion left me feeling hollow.

I stared at the departure board, my gaze unfocused. A sharp, stinging pain gripped my chest, making it hard to breathe. I felt completely depleted.

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