sad - Story 120305 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The plate of food in front of him remained untouched. Michael pushed the mashed potatoes around his plate, a monotonous exercise. He was supposed to be celebrating, but the news of the junior developer's salary had cast a long shadow over the evening. His appetite was completely gone.

His wife asked him how his day had been, and he shrugged, forcing a smile that didn't reach his eyes. His throat felt tight, and he struggled to swallow.

The television flickered in the background, but the images swam before his eyes. All he could think about was the disparity, the inequality, and the creeping feeling that maybe he wasn't good enough.

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