sad - Story 120281 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windowpane, mirroring the relentless drumming in Amelia's chest. She hadn't left her apartment all day. The takeout containers from last night’s dinner sat on the coffee table, a testament to her inertia. A new notification blinked on her laptop screen: a friend request. A familiar name: Mark Thompson. He was the one who had made her life hell in elementary school.

She swiped at the corner of her eye, then leaned back in her chair. A cold dread settled in her stomach. Why now? Years had passed, a lifetime. Yet, just the sight of his name had rendered her immobile, frozen in place. She felt a familiar weight pressing on her chest, heavy and suffocating.

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