sad - Story 120204 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The mechanic had just given him the final bill for a new engine. Mark had barely made it inside when he saw it. No car. Just the space. His stomach dropped, that familiar twisting feeling returning. He thought the feeling would go away now he fixed the engine, but it seemed the world was determined to keep him down.

He leaned against the brick wall, the rough texture doing little to soothe his frayed nerves. He felt a hollowness, a desert within him. The breeze whispered through the bare trees, a sound devoid of comfort. He closed his eyes, wanting to block everything out.

Why did everything have to be so hard?

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