sad - Story 120277 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive home was a blur. The familiar route, usually a source of comfort, now felt like a lonely journey. He gripped the steering wheel so hard his knuckles turned white. The radio, normally his companion, was turned off. The silence was deafening, amplifying the turmoil within him.

He pulled into his driveway and sat there for a long moment, the engine idling. The house looked welcoming, but he felt unable to face it. The thought of dinner, the routines of the evening, seemed overwhelming.

He rested his forehead against the steering wheel, the cool plastic a small comfort. The weight of the day settled on him, heavy and oppressive. He wanted to scream. He wanted to go back.

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