sad - Story 120337 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email arrived with a blunt subject line: "Farewell from Bella Luna." Her fingers froze over the keyboard. She couldn't breathe.

It wasn't just a restaurant; it was a sanctuary. Every dish, a work of art. The atmosphere, a warm embrace. All of it, erased.

She reread the email, each word a fresh cut. Her eyes stung. A strange hollowness had invaded her chest, an echoing silence.

Later, she wandered aimlessly through the kitchen, the usual joy of cooking completely absent. The scent of herbs and spices now felt like a cruel joke.

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