sad - Story 120340 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The note on the door was concise: "Goodbye from Giovanni's." Sarah’s breath caught in her throat. The elegant cursive font seemed to mock her.

She had been coming here for twenty years. Anniversaries, birthdays, any reason to celebrate. All of it, over.

Her vision blurred. She felt a deep, wrenching emptiness. The world around her seemed to lose its color, its energy.

She decided to walk around the building one last time, tracing the windows. The thought of not being able to experience the restaurant again produced a deep longing within her.

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