sad - Story 120235 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence of the library was usually a source of comfort, but today it only amplified the tremor in Clara's hands. She sat in a secluded corner, the glow of her laptop screen the only illumination in the dim space. The article, the comments, the reactions... it all felt surreal.

She chewed her lip, the taste of blood metallic in her mouth. The diary, her secret world, had been opened to the world, and she felt stripped bare. A wave of heat washed over her, making her breath catch in her throat.

She closed the laptop with a snap, the sound echoing in the silent room. She needed to escape, to find somewhere that felt safe. Somewhere, anywhere, that wasn't here.

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