sad - Story 120433 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Impossible!" Eleanor slammed the magazine shut, the sound echoing in her otherwise silent kitchen. There it was: "Delilah's Delightful Dumplings," proclaimed across the glossy page. Her own "Granny's Goodies," identical down to the last spice, now had a new, glamorous face attached.

She ran her hand over her eyes, then down her face, sighing in dejection. The bubbling pot of broth on the stove seemed to mock her, the aroma once a source of comfort now carrying the taste of betrayal. She had been so excited to finally release her family's cookbook.

The once-familiar kitchen, once a sanctuary filled with the scent of spices and laughter, now felt alien and cold. She leaned against the counter, the weight of the situation pressing down on her. The feeling was heavy, suffocating.

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