sad - Story 120279 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Welcome aboard!" The words were cheerful, yet hollow. She forced a smile as the supervisor ushered her into her new workspace. The marketing department felt like a distant dream, a place she could never revisit. The faces she had known for years were replaced by strangers.

She sat at her new desk in the logistics department, feeling utterly lost. The unfamiliar software and procedures added to her unease. The weight of the transition pressed down on her, making it difficult to breathe.

She missed the collaborative spirit of her old team. The silence in the new department was a constant reminder of her solitude. She couldn't focus. Her productivity plummeted. It was as if she had forgotten how to do the job she had loved.

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