sad - Story 120203 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning sun felt wrong, harsh and mocking. The driveway's vacancy glared back at her, a stark white canvas of nothingness. Sarah felt a peculiar numbness spread through her limbs, making her movements slow and deliberate. She’d spent the last week saving for a new tire.

She felt like she could barely lift her own body. Everything felt heavy, the air, her clothes. The chipped paint of the house seemed to judge her. The silence of the morning, usually peaceful, now grated on her nerves.

"Great," she breathed out, her voice barely audible. Another expense. Another burden.

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