sad - Story 120319 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Ich liebe dich auch," said Sophie, her eyes shining as she looked at her husband, Max, who had just told her he loved her in German. His perfect pronunciation. He didn't know that she had been struggling for years to become fluent. She felt a stab of… melancholy.

She turned away, pretending to rearrange the books on the shelf. The spines, usually a source of comfort, now seemed to press in on her. She had tried, she really had. He was better.

She found herself staring at a photo of her grandfather, the last speaker of the language in her immediate family.

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