sad - Story 120170 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The relentless gaiety of the wedding was a cruel symphony playing in her ears. Each toast, each shared glance, intensified the hollowness inside. Seeing Ethan, looking so happy with another, was a physical shock, a jolt that stole her breath.

She retreated to the bar, ordering a drink she didn't want. The ice clinked in her glass, a harsh sound in the celebratory atmosphere. The room blurred slightly as she stared at the amber liquid. She felt a profound sense of… being lost, adrift in a sea of forced happiness, with no shore in sight.

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