sad - Story 120411 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The biting wind whipped at Amelia’s coat, mirroring the icy grip around her heart. She found the wallet tucked behind a park bench, its leather worn and cracked, a testament to its owner's long years. Opening it, she saw a stack of crisp, hundred-dollar bills. A thrill, a flicker of something she hadn't felt in weeks, passed through her, quickly replaced by a dull ache. She clutched the wallet tighter, the weight of the money a burden, not a blessing. Her shoulders slumped, and she just wanted to sit and stare at the ground.

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