sad - Story 120241 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The file felt heavy in Amelia’s hands. She hadn't expected to be so affected. The receptionist had been curt, practically tossing the envelope at her. Now, slumped on the bus, the documents felt like a lead weight in her lap.

She peeled open the envelope, her fingers clumsy and unresponsive. It took an age to unfold the papers. Her eyes darted over the unfamiliar names, the dates, the treatments. Everything wrong. Everything… not hers.

A wave of nausea churned in her stomach. Outside the window, the rain blurred the city into a watercolor wash. She hadn't realized how fragile she felt, how easily shattered.

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