sad - Story 120173 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The spaghetti on the plate was cold, untouched. Evelyn pushed it around with her fork, the clinking sound grating on her ears. David’s elaborate stories of being a high-flying lawyer had always been a source of amusement, but also a source of pride for her. Now, discovering he worked at a small paralegal office, the wind had been knocked out of her.

Her phone vibrated with a message from him, asking if she was still coming over. She ignored it. The world suddenly felt drab, the colors muted. She felt a hollowness she hadn't experienced in years.

She set her fork down with a definitive clatter. The plate remained untouched. She rose from her seat, leaving the mess.

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