sad - Story 120157 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found himself staring at the blank screen of his computer, the cursor blinking tauntingly. He couldn't concentrate. The job he hadn't gotten was all he could think about. He should be working, but his thoughts were trapped in a loop.

He got up and wandered into the kitchen, opening the refrigerator, even though he wasn't hungry. The contents seemed unappealing, a jumble of leftovers and half-empty containers. He closed the door, unable to find anything that interested him.

He felt a deep sense of… blockage. He couldn’t seem to move forward. The world felt like it had closed in on him, the future appearing uncertain.

He sat back down, the cursor still blinking, a symbol of his stagnation.

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