sad - Story 120328 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive home was quiet, the radio off. Chef David gripped the steering wheel so tightly his knuckles were white. The damning review replayed in his mind, each word a condemnation.

His usually confident posture was now stooped. The thought of facing his wife and children filled him with a sense of dread. He felt a deep sense of inadequacy, as if he had failed them all.

He pulled into his driveway, the house looming large in the fading light. He sat in the car for a long moment, unable to move. A tear traced a path down his cheek, the first one in years. The world seemed to spin.

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