sad - Story 120247 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The park, once a source of joy, now felt like a taunt. Clara sat on a bench, watching children play, their laughter ringing out in the clear air. She should be happy, she knew. It was a beautiful day.

But the mixed-up files, they whispered in her ear. They detailed a different life, a different trajectory. A path she hadn’t asked for. The paperwork felt like a heavy shroud, smothering any trace of light.

She clenched her fists, her nails digging into her palms. The joy of the children felt distant, impossible to share. She felt adrift, lost in a sea of bewilderment.

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