sad - Story 120457 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the art gallery seemed to mock her. The test results, delivered that morning, had unmoored her. Anna’s normally bubbly personality was gone, replaced by a subdued quiet. She'd been looking forward to the gallery opening. Now, she felt like an imposter.

She walked through the exhibit, the artwork seeming to recede into a blurry background. The energy of the crowd felt exhausting. She picked at a canapé, the flavors tasting like ash in her mouth. She longed for the familiarity of her own space.

She excused herself and went outside, leaning against the cold stone wall. The city's lights seemed to pulse with a frenetic energy that she couldn't match. She stood alone, feeling the weight of an unfamiliar history pressing down on her.

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