sad - Story 120199 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Robert stood in the schoolyard, watching the children play. His gaze was fixed on the new student's directory. Ms. Carter. The name burned in his mind. He felt as though a rug had been pulled from under him. A sense of disconnection had settled in him.

He remembered Ms. Carter's sharp criticism, her insistence on perfection, the way she made him question his abilities. The world around him seemed to have lost its luster.

He turned and walked away, the joy of the schoolyard fading with each step. His pace increased. He felt a need to escape, to run away from this unwelcome sensation.

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