sad - Story 120488 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The blueprints lay scattered across the table, the future of the land laid out in stark lines and angles. John stared at them, his chest tight. This wasn’t just a house; it was a repository of his family's history, a vessel carrying generations of their stories.

He ran his finger along the plans, tracing the outlines of the rooms, the garden, the porch where he’d learned to ride his bike. He felt a hollowness, an echoing space within him. He thought of all the holidays, of celebrations and mournings.

He pushed the plans aside, unable to look anymore. His lower lip trembled.

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