sad - Story 120483 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Everything alright, sweetheart?" her husband asked, his voice soft. Sarah just nodded, unable to meet his eyes. The sight of the bulldozers was a physical blow, a weight pressing down on her shoulders. Her stomach churned.

She traced the outline of the brick chimney, the same bricks her father had meticulously cleaned every spring. She remembered the warmth of the fireplace in winter, the scent of burning wood, the feeling of safety and security.

The wrecking crew started to tear at the roof, and a low moan escaped her lips. She closed her eyes, trying to block out the sounds, the sights, the feeling of something precious being torn away from her.

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