sad - Story 120168 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Are you alright?” The question, from a well-meaning acquaintance, was a pointed reminder of his carefully constructed façade. He had tried to appear jovial, to blend in, but it was a monumental effort. The sight of Chloe, radiant and smiling, cut through him.

He offered a weak smile in return, but the muscles in his face felt stiff. He mumbled something about needing air and headed for the garden. The manicured lawns offered no solace. He leaned against a tree, feeling utterly depleted, the joy of the day a distant echo he couldn't grasp.

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