sad - Story 120469 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of lavender, which always clung to his grandmother’s shawl, hung heavy in the air, a phantom reminder of the warmth he used to feel. The shawl, now folded neatly, lay on the table. His aunt was explaining the auction, the potential bids. He watched her, unable to focus.

He felt the prickle of tears behind his eyes and abruptly turned away, needing to leave the room. He recalled his grandmother wearing the shawl on their walks, the warmth of her hugs, the sense of safety it had provided. It felt like he was losing a part of himself.

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