sad - Story 120187 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house seemed to shrink around him, the walls closing in. Ethan felt confined and trapped. He had found the phone hidden away, the evidence of his partner's deceit staring back at him. The thought of confronting her made him want to hide.

He ran his hand through his hair, the gesture a nervous tick. He walked slowly through their home, the space they once shared. The photos on the wall, the memories, were suddenly tainted, the joy replaced with a bitter taste.

He glanced at the bedroom door, wanting to be anywhere but there. The quiet of the house seemed to amplify the churning emotions within him.

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