sad - Story 120209 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the evening pressed in on her, heavy and suffocating. She felt a hollowness in the pit of her stomach, a gnawing emptiness that mirrored the vacant driveway. She had spent the day anticipating the drive, the escape.

She felt a wave of fatigue wash over her, stealing her strength. The world felt too much, too loud, too everything. She wanted to retreat, to disappear, to find a place where this feeling couldn't reach her. She crossed her arms, rubbing them for warmth that didn’t exist.

She hated this.

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