sad - Story 120465 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the dining room was broken only by the clinking of china as his sister carefully packed the heirloom plates. Each plate held a memory – a birthday celebration, a Christmas dinner, a shared meal that bound them together. He watched her, a hollow feeling growing inside him with each piece she wrapped.

"It's the right thing to do," she stated, her voice tight, avoiding his gaze. He wanted to shout, to protest, but the words wouldn't come. He pushed away from the table, feeling the familiar pull in his stomach as he watched the plates, the symbol of their shared past, disappear into the boxes. He felt a deep longing for a world he could no longer find.

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