sad - Story 120268 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bright sunshine of the tennis court seemed to hurt my eyes. My name wasn't on the team list. It was a brutal blow, a direct hit to the heart of my aspirations. I felt a stinging sensation behind my eyes, and my throat tightened.

I walked slowly towards the fence, my racket dragging behind me. The other players were already practicing, their shots echoing across the court. Their energy felt alien, their joy a sharp contrast to my own heavy heart.

I leaned against the fence, the wire digging into my skin. Each tiny indentation was a physical representation of the ache.

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