sad - Story 120430 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elegant script of the invitation felt like a physical blow. James sat at his kitchen table, the paper clutched in his hand. He was overwhelmed with a feeling of something akin to being gutted; he couldn’t place it.

He thought of the carefree days of his youth, the friendships that had dissolved, the promises that had gone unfulfilled. He had been so full of hope back then. Now, it was… different.

He pushed the invitation away, his gaze falling to the floor. The world around him seemed to blur, and his mind was a swirling vortex of regrets and what-ifs. The thought of facing his peers left him feeling cold and exposed, as if the world could see the emptiness he felt.

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