sad - Story 120375 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The new house was supposed to be a fresh start, a balm for a wounded soul. Instead, Sarah felt adrift, the unfamiliar rooms filled with a sense of isolation. The scent of fresh paint and wood polish did little to dispel the lingering shadows that clung to her. She'd been avoiding the attic, the dust and dim light reminding her of the past she was trying to leave behind. She started to clean the old books in the living room, and noticed how one shelf was slightly askew. With a little push, the shelf swung inward, revealing a small, concealed door.

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