sad - Story 120355 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flashlight beam danced erratically across the attic floor, illuminating dust-covered relics of the past. Emily, her shoulders slumped, felt a familiar pressure in her chest. She was meant to be cleaning, organizing, but the task seemed insurmountable.

She found a child's art project: a crudely drawn picture of a family. The figures were stick people, smiling faces. She felt a sting behind her eyes, the familiar burn that had become too familiar.

The picture was a mirror. The child's creation made her feel small. She closed the lid of the box, not able to face any more, at this moment.

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