sad - Story 120320 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't mentioned it. He hadn't said a word. But here he was, her partner, David, expertly navigating the complicated clicks and pops of her Xhosa dialect. A feeling of… absence washed over her.

She sat heavily on the bed, her hand going to her throat. She felt… removed. The bright colors of the quilt suddenly felt too intense, too overwhelming. She turned away and stared out the window, at the gray sky.

She felt as if the air was pressing in on her, and she could not breathe.

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