sad - Story 120264 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No, I can't believe it," I muttered under my breath, my voice barely audible. My name wasn't on the roster. The years of dedication to becoming a varsity swimmer, the early morning practices, the aching muscles, the chlorine-filled lungs… all in vain. A wave of heat washed over me, followed by a chilling sensation.

I wanted to scream, to lash out, but instead, I just stood there, paralyzed, feeling like the air had been sucked out of the room. Everything seemed to fade into a hazy blur. The other swimmers were slapping each other on the back, celebrating. Their joy felt like a personal insult.

My legs felt wobbly. I leaned against the wall for support.

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