sad - Story 120401 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The key felt heavy in Leo’s hand, a cold metal weight mirroring the hollow ache in his chest. He pushed the door open, the hinges groaning a mournful song. Dust motes danced in the lone ray of sunlight that pierced the gloom of the hallway. He trailed a finger along the banister, the wood rough and familiar, yet somehow alien now.

His sister, Maya, was already in the kitchen, her back rigid as she stared out the window. The scent of lavender, Grandma Elsie's favorite, still clung faintly to the air, a phantom hug that only intensified the emptiness. Leo cleared his throat, but the sound seemed to dissipate before reaching her.

"Found the photo albums," Maya finally said, her voice flat. "Guess they're ours now." Leo knew the albums were filled with memories – laughter, birthdays, holidays. Now, they were just another reminder of what was gone.

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