sad - Story 120349 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of stale coffee and hot dogs hung in the air, a nauseating combination that mirrored the feeling in Helen's gut. The yard sale was a blur of mismatched furniture and forgotten dreams. She was in a daze, barely present. And then, she saw him. Her old friend, Mr. Fluffernutter.

The air seemed to thicken around her, and the ground felt unsteady beneath her feet. Memories surfaced: her father's illness, her own failures, the disappointments. She wanted to run away, to hide.

She didn’t feel like speaking. She just pointed, her finger trembling. "How much?" she managed to croak. She paid the price, and she took Mr. Fluffernutter, the only piece of a world that she now had left. The familiar scent of his fabric brought no comfort.

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