sad - Story 120439 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her eyes scanned the cookbook, but she couldn't focus. "Theodora’s Tempting Tiramisu" stared back at her from the page, a perfect replica of her cherished "Grandma's Goodness." The weight in her chest was so oppressive, it was difficult to breathe.

She had abandoned her own baking blog. The thought of creating anything, of sharing her recipes, felt completely deflating. The kitchen, once her haven, now felt like a place she couldn't bear to enter.

Her usually vivacious personality had faded. She spent her days lost in thought, staring out the window. The world felt dull, grey, devoid of any colour.

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