sad - Story 120159 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She tried to focus on her hobbies, hoping to distract herself, but her knitting needles seemed cumbersome, her paints dry. The joy she once found in her creative pursuits had vanished. The vibrant colors of her canvas seemed dull, the yarn a tangle of useless threads.

She turned on the television, but the cheerful programs only amplified her… unease. She changed the channel repeatedly, each show offering a fleeting distraction before she was forced to confront the feelings again. The remote felt heavy in her hand.

She shut off the TV and sat in silence, the feeling inside growing stronger, a constant presence. She felt adrift, with nothing to anchor her.

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