sad - Story 120174 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the apartment felt enormous. Sarah slumped onto the sofa, the cushions doing little to cushion her. Mark’s boastful descriptions of his work as a venture capitalist had always impressed her. The truth – he managed a small online shop – had landed like a punch to the gut.

She picked up the remote, mindlessly flicking through channels. Nothing held her attention. The brightly lit screen seemed to mock her, a constant reminder of the superficiality she now perceived in their friendship.

Her chest felt constricted. Tears threatened, but she blinked them back, refusing to let them fall. The air seemed thick with deception.

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