sad - Story 120459 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Another round?" The bartender asked, his voice a drone in the loud pub. Emily just shook her head, pushing her untouched drink across the counter. The DNA results had stripped her of her sense of self. Everything felt different.

The raucous laughter and chatter of the other patrons seemed to irritate her. She felt isolated, a ghost in a crowd. She stared into the amber liquid, the swirling patterns doing little to distract her.

She eventually left the pub, the cold air stinging her cheeks. The city lights seemed harsh, unforgiving. She walked for hours, aimlessly navigating the streets, the weight of the information 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