sad - Story 120400 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The park was beautiful, the fall colors a vibrant spectacle, but Leo could barely register the beauty. He wandered the pathways, lost in thought. He’d retreated from life, seeking solace in old books. He sat on a bench, and opened a book of fairy tales, its pages brittle with age.

A pressed flower, a forget-me-not, fell out. Attached was a small, hand-drawn picture of a heart. The artwork felt innocent, a beacon of a long-lost affection. Leo remembered the feeling of being loved, and the feeling was now a memory he couldn't grasp. A profound sense of loss consumed him.

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