sad - Story 120503 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world seemed to have drained of color, much like the vibrant hues of the irises the dog was now trampling. Mark slumped against the fence, arms limp at his sides. He stared at the animal, its playful antics a jarring contrast to the hollowness within him. Each day he tried to summon the energy to fix the gate, but somehow never could.

His stomach clenched, a familiar ache. The air felt thick, heavy, as though the very atmosphere was pressing down on him. The dog barked, a joyous sound, a sound he couldn't replicate.

He wanted to scream at it to stop. He wanted to scream at the sky.

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