sad - Story 120237 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The house felt like a mausoleum. Everything was quiet, still, and suffocating. Emily wandered through the rooms, unable to find solace in anything. The published diary entries hung over her like a dark cloud, a constant reminder of her past self.

She looked at her reflection in the mirror and didn’t recognize the person staring back. The vibrant girl who had written those words seemed like a stranger. Her shoulders were stooped, her gaze vacant, lost in a sea of despair.

She wanted to rewind time, to erase the words, to return to a time before the world had its claws in her. But she knew that was impossible.

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