sad - Story 120166 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He forced a smile as he approached the buffet table, but the food held no appeal. Every bite felt like a chore. He spotted Emily, across the room, deep in conversation with a man who wasn't him. The scene played out in slow motion inside his head.

The room seemed to spin slightly. His appetite evaporated. He picked at his plate, pushing the food around with a fork. He felt a profound hollowness, a desert stretching across his insides. He longed to flee, to be anywhere but here, to escape the crushing weight of… this.

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