sad - Story 120267 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cricket pitch, once a place of joy and camaraderie, now felt like a battlefield. David surveyed the team list, his gaze lingering on the names of those who had made the squad. His own name was missing. A knot formed in his chest, making it hard to swallow.

He wandered towards the edge of the field, his steps slow and hesitant. The setting sun cast elongated shadows, mimicking the darkness that seemed to have enveloped his spirit. The familiar sounds of the game, the crack of the bat, the cheers of the crowd, felt distant and muffled.

He felt a profound sense of isolation. He wanted to go home, to disappear.

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