sad - Story 120498 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the library felt thick with dust and unspoken disappointment. Robert stared at the patent database, a grimace forming on his lips. His renewable energy source, the culmination of his life’s work, was useless. Another scientist had already secured the patent.

He slammed the laptop shut, the sound echoing in the otherwise silent room. His body felt drained, his energy dissipated. The world felt blurry.

He pushed his chair back from the desk, unable to concentrate. He ran his hand through his hair, a gesture of frustration. He had to be at the top of his game, and he failed.

He left the library. The rain was coming down hard.

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