sad - Story 120402 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic air was thick with the scent of mothballs and forgotten things. Clara tugged at a box, her movements slow, each action deliberate. Her shoulders slumped, and a tremor ran through her arms. Sunlight sliced through the grimy window, illuminating dust-covered treasures: a chipped porcelain doll, a stack of worn books, a box of letters tied with a faded ribbon.

Her brother, Thomas, poked his head in, whistling lightly. "Find anything good?" he asked, oblivious. Clara just shook her head, unable to speak, her throat constricted.

She stumbled upon a small wooden music box, its delicate tune a stark contrast to the echoing silence. She wound it up, listening to the tinkling melody, a wave of something akin to surrender washing over her.

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