sad - Story 120403 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Want to start on the garden?" Mark asked, his voice strained. His sister, Emily, remained slumped in the porch swing, staring at the overgrown rose bushes. He knew she had loved Grandma's garden.

The setting sun cast long shadows across the yard, lengthening the silence between them. He watched her run a hand through her hair, a gesture he had seen a hundred times. She hadn’t touched her lunch.

He kicked at a loose stone, a nervous habit. The roses were full of thorns, their vibrant colors now tinged with the deepening dusk.

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