sad - Story 120314 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A sharp sting went through Clara as she watched David, her husband of ten years, playfully bickering with their neighbor, Mrs. Rodriguez, in perfect Spanish. She had tried, truly, to learn the language. But her efforts had been sporadic, her commitment lacking. Now, she felt a profound sense of… disconnection.

She stared down at the half-finished knitting project on her lap. The yarn, vibrant and colorful, seemed to mock her. She felt a need to be away, to be alone, to think and find a way out of the fog in her mind.

Clara got up and walked to the front door, the click of the lock a small, sharp sound in the otherwise quiet house.

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