sad - Story 120495 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence in the apartment was deafening. Finn stared at the screen, the patent information mocking him. His self-cleaning house, the culmination of years of research, was old news. Another company had, with far more resources, beaten him to the punch.

He barely touched his dinner, the food cold and unappetizing. The apartment, once a haven of creativity and enthusiasm, now felt like a prison. The world felt smaller, more restricted.

He picked up the remote, flipping through channels, but nothing held his attention. He missed the excitement of the project, the buzz of creation.

He went to bed early and stared at the ceiling.

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