sad - Story 120407 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old house felt hollow, even with the presence of her brother, Daniel. They moved from room to room, opening boxes and sorting through things, but everything felt heavy. Her heart felt as though it was sinking lower and lower.

He found her in the sunroom, staring at the empty bird feeder. "She loved watching them," he said softly, his voice thick.

She didn't reply, just slowly reached out to touch the glass, her fingers leaving a smudge. The bright flowers in the garden seemed to mock her with their vibrancy.

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