sad - Story 120499 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He sat on the porch swing, the rhythmic creak of the chains a monotonous counterpoint to his mood. The patent denial lay on the weathered wooden planks beside him. His sustainable farming system, his solution to world hunger, was already patented.

He stared out at his farm, the fields stretching out before him, full of potential that he could no longer tap. The sunset was beautiful, yet it failed to lift his spirits. It was like everything was colored by a haze.

He closed his eyes, his breathing shallow. The swing slowed to a stop.

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