sad - Story 120180 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The celebratory fizz of the champagne felt like a betrayal on her tongue. The news about Sophia’s "consulting" work – it was just a receptionist job – had arrived just before they'd planned their dinner. The festive mood crashed around her.

She forced a smile, but it felt brittle and artificial. The lively conversation around the table seemed distant, like a play she was forced to watch. The elaborate stories Sophia had told echoed in her memory.

She excused herself, claiming a headache. As she walked away, the festive atmosphere felt unbearably loud, unbearably fake.

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