sad - Story 120496 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I just... I don't know," Liam mumbled, staring at the notification that his invention was already patented. His dream, his personal jet pack, was gone. Years of work, all for naught.

The mechanic's garage, normally filled with the clang of tools and the smell of oil, was oppressively quiet. His hands, usually buzzing with energy, felt strangely lifeless. He was usually full of ideas.

He slumped against a car, his shoulders slumping. He rubbed his eyes, trying to clear away the fog that had settled in his mind. The joy of invention had disappeared.
He looked out the door. The sunset was pretty, but he didn't care.

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