sad - Story 120441 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the dorm window, mirroring the tempest brewing inside Amelia. She slumped on her bed, shoulders hunched, the weight of the day pressing down on her. Her roommate, Chloe, had been overly bubbly lately, a forced cheerfulness that grated on Amelia’s nerves. Now, seeing Chloe's half-hearted smile felt like a physical blow. The journal, its cover a vibrant sunflower, lay open on the desk, a betrayal blooming. Amelia just wanted to disappear.

The silence in the room was suffocating. Amelia traced the outline of a chipped mug on her desk. It had been a gift, from someone she missed terribly. A wave of exhaustion washed over her. She pulled the blanket over her head, the darkness a temporary comfort, wishing the world would just fade away.

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