sad - Story 120476 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Another one,” she muttered, her voice a low, gravelly sound. It was addressed to someone named "Arthur Finch." It had been a long time since she'd felt anything other than a pervasive sense of emptiness. She did not want to see anyone.

She picked up the box, the weight of it doing little to ground her. The walls of her apartment seemed to close in, the air thick with the scent of old things and unspoken words. She couldn't bring herself to care about anything, including the mystery contained within the cardboard.

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