sad - Story 120418 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The money burned a hole in her pocket, a constant reminder of everything she had lost. The world seemed to have drained of all color, the sky the same dull shade of grey as her mood. She’d been wandering aimlessly for hours, the found wallet a heavy companion. She found a park bench and sat staring straight ahead. Each breath felt like an arduous effort, and her throat felt thick, as if she might break down in tears any second.

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