sad - Story 120380 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the world seemed to press down on him, making even the simplest tasks feel monumental. The new house, a symbol of a fresh start, instead felt like a gilded cage. He stared blankly at the walls, the stark emptiness of the rooms mirroring the void within him. He was standing in the library, looking at the books, but not actually reading anything. He reached to straighten a volume on a shelf, and the entire section moved back, revealing a staircase that led to a space he had not known existed.

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