sad - Story 120388 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The seaside pier, usually a place of joy, now felt like a desolate wasteland to Olivia. The waves crashed against the pilings, mimicking the relentless pounding in her chest. She stood at the end of the pier, watching the sunset, feeling utterly alone. She’d been stood up again, and the salty air did nothing to ease the tightness in her chest.

A man approached. He looked as dejected as she felt. "Have you seen…?" he started, then stopped, his eyes meeting hers. He mentioned a restaurant they had planned to go to. He brought up a shared secret.

Olivia pulled out her phone. The message was the same as the one she had received. They were both victims. And the ocean seemed to swallow her whole.

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