sad - Story 120387 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The movie theatre popcorn, usually a comfort, tasted like ash in Ethan's mouth. The previews rolled on, but he remained fixated on the empty seat beside him. The absence stung. The smell of buttery popcorn made him want to vomit. His phone lay on the seat, a constant reminder of the unanswered messages.

A young woman stood in front of him. "Excuse me," she said, her voice trembling slightly. "Are you waiting for… Alex?" Ethan, gutted, slowly shook his head. Her face crumpled. He knew the look. He felt it too.

They compared the messages. It was the same person. The same lies. The same broken promises. The world tilted on its axis, and everything felt wrong. Ethan couldn't breathe.

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