sad - Story 120350 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chipped paint and peeling wallpaper of the garage sale seemed to mirror the cracks in Clara’s own heart. She hated being here, hated the feeling of… everything. Then, amidst a pile of children's clothes, she saw him. Alfred, her teddy bear.

Her breath hitched. She remembered the nights of reading, the silly games, her younger brother, the laughter. The bear was battered. The memories were not.

A profound sense of isolation washed over her, making her feel cold and small. "How much?" she asked, her voice cracking. The seller, a woman with a kind, wrinkled face, named the price. It was a paltry sum. As she walked away, Alfred clutched tightly to her chest, she felt a bitter taste in her mouth.

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