sad - Story 120249 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The artwork on the wall, usually vibrant and cheerful, now seemed to mock her. Emily stared at the canvases, the bright colors blurring through unshed tears. The hospital's mistake felt like a personal affront.

She had always been a fighter, a survivor. But the incorrect diagnosis, the frightening prognosis… it had chipped away at her resilience. She felt brittle, easily broken.

She wanted to call someone, but the words wouldn't come. She simply stood there, surrounded by colors she could no longer feel, a statue in the empty gallery of her own life.

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