sad - Story 120298 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The balloons, purchased with such optimism, lay deflated in the corner of the room. The cake, ordered and ready to be picked up, was a now useless expense. The cancellation, delivered in a casual text message, had robbed her of her happiness, her joy. A profound ache pulsed in her chest.

She went to the bedroom and lay down on the bed, staring at the ceiling. The world was blurry. She let the tears come. She just wanted the day to disappear.

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