sad - Story 120414 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Look what I found!" Michael announced, waving the wallet in the air. His sister barely glanced up from the book she was pretending to read. She sat hunched in a chair at the cafe, the scent of coffee doing nothing to rouse her from her stupor. He started rattling off all the things he would buy with the money, but she didn’t listen. The world seemed muffled, distant, its colors bleached. A familiar sense of despair settled upon her, heavy and oppressive.

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