sad - Story 120280 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weekly staff meeting felt like a torture. He sat in the corner of the room, feeling like an outsider observing a private ritual. He forced a smile as the new team leader greeted him. His own voice felt strange and unfamiliar as he responded.

He missed the energy and spirit of the sales team. The competitive drive and fast pace had been his oxygen. The measured tone and data-driven discussions of the planning department were a constant drag. He didn't speak up, he didn't offer any suggestions. He just wanted it to be over.

He felt the knot in his stomach tighten as the meeting dragged on. The familiar faces and the shared purpose of his old team were a distant memory. The weight of his new circumstances made him feel physically ill.

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