sad - Story 120163 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The forced cheerfulness of the event was a tangible weight on Clara's shoulders. She plastered a smile on her face, but it felt brittle, like it could shatter at any moment. Seeing Mark, talking animatedly with a woman she didn't recognize, felt like a fresh wound.

She fiddled with the strap of her clutch, feeling the familiar prickle of tears in her eyes. She excused herself from the table, claiming she needed to freshen up. The restroom was a sanctuary. She stared at her reflection in the mirror, searching for any sign of her former, carefree self. Nothing. Only the ghost of a smile, and a profound emptiness.

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