sad - Story 120507 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dog, a playful golden doodle, was presently attempting to dig under her newly planted tomato plants. Chloe just stared, her posture rigid, her face expressionless. She should have yelled, shooed the dog away, but the energy had simply fled.

Her fingers traced the edge of the weathered picnic table. She sat there, motionless, and the silence of the garden was broken only by the dog’s frantic digging. The weight in her heart was almost crushing.

She didn't know how much longer she could bear this.

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