sad - Story 120413 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The leather felt heavy in her hands, the bills neatly arranged. Sarah was already late for her shift, but she couldn't bring herself to move. She traced the embossed initials on the wallet, her fingers lingering. The vibrant colors of the passing sunset seemed muted, failing to penetrate the grey fog that enveloped her. She thought about the things she couldn't afford, the dreams that felt like shards of glass in her chest. A sigh escaped her, a sound like the slow leaking of a punctured tire.

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