sad - Story 120466 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“We need to discuss the painting,” his mother announced, her voice strained. The painting hung on the wall, a portrait of his great-grandmother, her eyes following him as he moved around the room. He walked around it, unable to look directly at it.

He remembered hearing his grandfather’s stories about the painting, of his grandmother's love for it and how she'd always said it would stay in the family. He knew the financial strain was real, the mounting bills. His throat tightened, and he rubbed his hands together, trying to warm them. He felt a knot in his stomach, a slow, heavy feeling of distress, as his mother began to talk about the auction house.

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