sad - Story 120205 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The keys felt heavy in her hand, useless and pointless. They were supposed to lead somewhere, but now, they led to nothing. It had been her father's car, passed down to her after he passed. The space where the old truck used to sit seemed to mock her.

She had been so busy this past week. Work, family, everything. Now, the world had added another item to her to-do list, and it felt like the final straw. She pressed her lips together, fighting the urge to crumble.

She knew she had to deal with this, but just the thought of it made her feel leaden.

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