sad - Story 120165 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air conditioning in the ballroom felt frigid against her skin, yet Sarah felt a heat rising within. Seeing Ethan, his eyes bright with happiness, with *her* former friend, was a physical blow. She'd thought she was prepared. She had lied to herself.

She took a fortifying swig of her wine, its bitterness doing little to numb the ache in her chest. She made a mental note to leave the wedding early. The thought of staying for the cake cutting – a symbol of shared joy – was unbearable. The world felt muffled, as if she were viewing it through a thick pane of glass.

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