sad - Story 120196 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

As soon as she saw the name on the door, Marie’s stomach lurched. Mrs. Albright. The name evoked a specific kind of emptiness, a void that had never truly been filled. She felt a profound sense of distance, separated by an invisible wall.

She stood at the end of the school hallway for longer than usual, watching the children chatter and play. She remembered the stifling atmosphere of Mrs. Albright’s classroom, the endless rules, the crushing expectations.

She managed to force a smile, a fake, brittle thing that didn't reach her eyes, when she saw her son, Sam, run out of the classroom. She felt an overwhelming desire to protect him from the same experiences.

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