sad - Story 120245 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone rang, shattering the quiet. Sarah let it go to voicemail. The caller ID displayed the clinic's number. She didn't have the strength to speak. She felt like an empty vessel, drained.

She replayed the doctor’s words in her head, the clinical explanation, the promises of rectifying the error. But the phantom illness, the mistaken prognosis, still hung in the air, a poisonous vapor.

She walked to the window, the sun warm on her face, yet she felt a coldness inside. The world seemed bright, vibrant, and she felt removed from it, adrift in a silent, echoing void.

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