sad - Story 120446 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Did you...did you read it?" Maya’s voice was barely a whisper. Her roommate, Olivia, avoided eye contact, busying herself with meticulously organizing her bookshelf. The telltale signs – a bent page, a stray hair – were undeniable. Maya felt a hollowness in her chest, as though something vital had been ripped away.

The room, usually a haven, now felt like a prison. Maya sat on her bed, legs drawn to her chest, the vibrant tapestry on the wall now a dizzying swirl of color. She wrapped her arms around herself, seeking a comfort that refused to come. The world tilted.

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