sad - Story 120266 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gymnasium was a cacophony of excited shouts and happy chatter. But for Emily, it was a silent, empty space. The gymnastics team roster was displayed proudly, her name nowhere to be found. The room seemed to shrink, closing in on her.

Her breath hitched in her throat, a choked sob threatening to erupt. She felt a sudden, inexplicable urge to run, to escape the crushing weight of her disappointment. The vibrant colors of the uniforms, usually a source of inspiration, now felt garish and mocking.

She bit down hard on her lip, tasting the metallic tang of blood. She clutched her gym bag, her knuckles white.

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