sad - Story 120164 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found himself drawn to the edges of the dance floor, watching her as she laughed with her new husband. The music’s upbeat tempo grated on his nerves; it was a constant, unwelcome reminder of the jovial mood he didn't share. Michael clutched his water glass so tightly, his knuckles were white.

He'd rehearsed this encounter in his head a million times, but nothing could have prepared him for the actual reality of it. Every gesture, every shared joke was a dagger to his chest. He felt a lump rise in his throat, and the world seemed to dim slightly as he struggled to maintain composure. He wished he could disappear.

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