sad - Story 120486 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I just… I can't," Liam choked out, his voice a raw whisper. He stood beside his sister, their arms linked. They hadn't spoken much since their parents' passing. Seeing the structure being taken apart like this brought on a rush of memories.

He remembered the arguments, the triumphs, the simple everyday moments that now seemed so precious. The scent of honeysuckle from the overgrown trellis still lingered in his mind.

A worker waved a hand toward the pair, and Liam pulled away, but his sister squeezed his hand again. The pain seemed to well up in his chest.

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