sad - Story 120489 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The wind whipped around her, carrying with it the grit and dust. Maria stood at the edge of the property, the once-familiar landscape transformed into a construction zone. Her shoulders slumped. Her heart ached with each crashing sound.

She closed her eyes, trying to conjure the image of the house in its prime, but all she saw was the ongoing destruction. She remembered a Christmas morning, a birthday party, and a summer spent by the pool.

She wrapped her arms around herself, trying to ward off the encroaching chill. She needed to leave, but her feet felt rooted to the spot.

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