sad - Story 120479 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The delivery guy rang the bell and left the package without waiting for her to answer. She was in her bathrobe, her hair unkempt, the world feeling very far away. The name on the box was "Michael Brown." She hadn't been outside in days and had no energy to make conversation.

She dragged the package inside. She sat on the couch, staring at it for a long time. The feeling of being completely and utterly alone pressed down on her chest. Everything felt burdensome, exhausting. Her tea had gone cold.

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