sad - Story 120210 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He kicked at the gravel, sending small stones scattering. The anger hadn't surfaced yet, just a profound sense of loss, a deep quiet. He had just spent the last of his savings fixing it. The wind rustled through the leaves overhead, carrying with it a symphony of nothing.

He kept staring, not moving. He felt as though the earth had somehow shifted beneath him, leaving him adrift. The emptiness of the driveway echoed the emptiness inside. He couldn’t seem to find the will to go back inside.

He felt absolutely depleted.

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