sad - Story 120207 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the morning were suddenly muted. The world seemed drained of its energy as she stared at the empty space. Her heart felt as though it was dragging stones. The letter in her hand felt heavy.

She turned slowly, moving like her feet were rooted in cement. She had no energy. Even the birdsong seemed discordant, a hollow mockery of joy. She felt a profound weariness, a deep-seated exhaustion that made her want to lie down and never get up.

She opened the door again, her movements stiff. She simply wanted to be alone.

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