sad - Story 120339 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"The Sugar Shack is closing down." The words tumbled out of his friend’s mouth like a death knell. He felt a jolt of shock, his ears ringing. He couldn't quite take it in.

He loved the Sugar Shack. The perfectly crafted pastries, the welcoming atmosphere. It was a haven, a safe space.

His hands felt clammy. He pushed away his plate, his appetite gone. The thought of life without their chocolate croissants was a bitter pill to swallow.

He wandered home slowly, each step feeling heavy. The world lacked its usual vibrancy. Everything appeared muted, washed out.

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