sad - Story 120190 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world outside blurred. The streetlights cast their hazy glow through the rain-streaked window. Maya stared out into the night, feeling the world spin on its axis, and not in the way it used to. Finding the unknown number, the late-night calls – it had cracked the foundation of her world.

She wrapped her arms around herself, trying to ward off the chill that had settled deep within her. The quiet of the apartment was suffocating.

She felt the overwhelming urge to run, to escape the confines of this space. She reached for her coat and walked out into the rain.

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