sad - Story 120399 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold wind whipped around Emily as she walked home, the biting air mirroring the chill within her. She was always alone. She entered her small apartment, the space feeling vast and echoing. She sought refuge in her collection of old books, hoping for a moment's reprieve.

A dried leaf fell out of a poetry collection. It was a vibrant shade of crimson, its delicate veins still visible. A single, perfect line was scrawled on the leaf: "The autumn winds are wild tonight." Emily felt a sharp stab of understanding, and the world seemed to hold its breath around her. The leaf crumbled in her fingers.

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