sad - Story 120406 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun beat down on the old house, making the windows seem to glare. Amelia sat on the front steps, the chipped paint rough against her skin. She had been staring out at the road for hours, not speaking, not moving.

Her brother, Caleb, finally emerged, a toolbox in his hand. “Gonna try to fix the leaky faucet in the bathroom,” he announced, his voice tight.

Amelia simply nodded, her gaze fixed on something invisible. A single tear traced a path down her cheek, leaving a clean streak in the dust. The world seemed muted, its vibrant colors replaced by a dull gray.

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