sad - Story 120206 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Are you kidding me?” he choked out. The words felt foreign. He had spent the morning working on it, tightening bolts, polishing the chrome. Now, it was gone. The world seemed to tilt, the familiar ground beneath his feet wavering.

He felt a tightening in his chest, making it difficult to draw breath. He wanted to shout, to rage, but the words caught in his throat. He just stood there, staring at the empty space, feeling a deep internal ache.

His hands clenched and unclenched. What was he supposed to do now?

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