sad - Story 120208 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The street was the same, the trees were the same, but something was fundamentally altered. He went out, expecting to hop in the car and drive to the grocery store. But the car wasn't there. A sharp, stinging emotion pricked at the back of his eyes.

He didn’t understand. This was just not possible. He felt disconnected, like he was watching a scene from a play. He reached out to touch the empty space, his fingers brushing against cold air.

He swallowed hard, fighting the urge to cry. He felt a deep, aching emptiness.

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