sad - Story 120504 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dog, a boisterous Labrador, was in the birdbath now, splashing and happily making a mess. Sarah watched from her kitchen window, the warmth of the room failing to reach her. It was a small thing, this constant intrusion, and yet it felt like a relentless reminder of what she no longer possessed.

She ran a hand over her face, the skin dry and tight. The scent of freshly brewed coffee, usually a comfort, now felt like another phantom limb. A wave of nausea washed over her.

She closed her eyes, wishing the world would simply cease.

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