sad - Story 120150 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The art gallery felt crowded and chaotic, but she barely noticed the people milling about. Her gaze was fixed on the space where Professor Dubois' work had always hung. It was empty. The sudden announcement had shaken her. The lack of closure was… disorienting.

Her chest felt tight, her breathing shallow. She clutched her drink tightly, her knuckles white. She looked at the other paintings, all vibrant and bold, and felt… overshadowed. The canvas felt empty without him, his vibrant brushstrokes missing. She turned away, the bright lights of the gallery blurring before her eyes.

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