sad - Story 120366 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Just go," she whispered to the dog as she opened the front door. The dog whined and licked her hand, sensing her mood. Inside the mailbox, amidst the usual clutter, was a card, plain and simple, with an image of cupcakes. Her birthday. She stood there, the card clutched in her hand. No signature. She closed her eyes, fighting back a wave of nausea. The small, unassuming gift felt like a tidal wave of loneliness. She retreated inside, locking the door, and the dog snuggled against her leg.

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