sad - Story 120294 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No, no, that can't be right," she muttered, the words catching in her throat as she reread the note. She’d overheard hushed conversations, seen the secret texts, fueled by eager anticipation. Now, the note, a handwritten message, confirmed the news. The party was off. She felt the warmth drain from her face, leaving her chilled.

She kicked at the rug, a wave of intense frustration washing over her. She paced her apartment, her steps quick and agitated. She felt a knot forming in her stomach, a feeling of despondency. She wanted to scream.

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