sad - Story 120353 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic was stifling, the air thick with the scent of forgotten things. Sarah pushed a box aside, revealing a box filled with vintage toys. A battered teddy bear, a wooden train, a porcelain doll with a missing arm. She’d hoped the move would cheer her up, but everything just felt...heavy.

She picked up the doll, examining its vacant stare. A wave of exhaustion washed over her. She knew that look. Empty.

The sun beat down on the roof, trapping the heat and the weight of the day inside. She gently placed the doll back in the box, the gesture slow and deliberate.

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