sad - Story 120362 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt muted. Amelia usually greeted the sun with a run, a burst of energy to start her day. Today, though, the brightness felt wrong, an unwelcome intrusion. She shuffled to the mailbox, hoping for something, anything, to break the monotony. Junk mail, bills, and then, a card. A vibrantly illustrated card depicting cartoon animals blowing party horns. She stared at it, the paper feeling flimsy under her fingertips. It was her birthday. She let out a soft sigh, the air escaping her lungs with a quiet despair. She had wished someone had remembered. The unsigned card felt like a punch to the gut.

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