sad - Story 120510 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dog, a clumsy St. Bernard puppy, was now using her prize-winning flowerbeds as a personal playground. The girl's posture was slumped as she looked out the window. She had lost all interest in her garden, or anything else.

She watched the dog, her face pale. She was tired, so tired. Everything seemed to weigh her down.

She longed for the days that were, but they seemed impossibly far away.

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