sad - Story 120490 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't been back in years. Now, standing here, Kevin felt as if the air had been stolen from his lungs. The sight of the dilapidated house, soon to be erased, was a punch to the gut. The world seemed to tilt on its axis.

He'd spent his teenage years in that house, wrestling with his identity, dreaming of the future, and fighting with his parents. The front door was a symbol of security and freedom, the very walls contained stories of who he became.

He swallowed hard, fighting the urge to flee. He took a shaky breath, whispering, "Goodbye." He turned and walked away, his steps heavy, his heart filled.

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