sad - Story 120452 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Are you okay, Maya?" her roommate, Chloe, asked, her brow furrowed with concern. Maya just shrugged, pushing the half-eaten pasta around her plate. The test results had arrived that morning. A lineage completely foreign. Her heart felt like a crumpled paper.

Later, she found herself staring at her reflection. Her face, usually alight with a smile, was a mask of stillness. She traced the lines of her jaw, the shape of her eyes. None of it felt like *hers*. A wave of disorientation washed over her.

She picked up a framed picture of her parents, a picture that had always offered comfort. Now, it felt like she was looking at strangers. She bit her lip, the taste of metal filling her mouth. The world seemed suddenly muted, devoid of color.

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