sad - Story 120419 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He picked up the wallet from the sidewalk, his heart aching with a sensation he couldn't name. The bills rustled in his trembling hand. He felt like an island, cut off from everything and everyone. The city lights blurred through his watery eyes. He thought of his loved ones, the empty chair at the dinner table, the silence that followed him everywhere. The money suddenly seemed insignificant, and for the first time in a while, a single tear escaped and rolled down his cheek.

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