sad - Story 120316 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, you understand everything now?" Maria asked, her voice quiet. Her partner, Ben, beamed, rattling off a perfect, complex sentence in her native Swahili. The words felt like a blow. A sensation of… emptiness spread through her.

She excused herself from the living room, escaping to the garden. She sat on the cold stone bench, the evening air chilling her skin. The scent of roses, normally comforting, felt cloying, a reminder of the things she hadn't shared.

She hugged her knees to her chest, trying to stem the tide of emotions, attempting to reassemble herself in the gathering dusk.

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