sad - Story 120223 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sunlight sliced through the dust motes in the air, illuminating the chaotic display of her childhood. Sarah ran a shaky hand across the cover of a neatly-bound composition book, the words "Sarah's Stories" in her mother's flowing script. Each page, filled with her childish scribbles, felt like a slap in the face. She couldn’t keep her vision clear.

A wave of nausea churned in her stomach. She felt the urge to run, to escape the suffocating weight of the past. Her mother, ever vigilant, always present. Even here, in these silent remnants of the past, she felt her presence, a warmth that was no longer there.

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