sad - Story 120229 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her stomach felt tight, a clenched fist. Emily stared at the box, at the neat handwriting on the label, her mother's familiar signature. Inside were all her school assignments, all those long ago efforts. It seemed impossible to sort through it all.

She flipped through a particularly cringe-worthy essay, the sentences clumsy and naive. A sharp, stinging sensation behind her eyes threatened to spill over. The memory of her mother's smile, as she marked it with encouraging comments, still felt like a blow.

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