sad - Story 120514 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the window of the team van as Sarah stared out the window. The rolling landscape blurred into streaks of grey. Her lip quivered as she watched her teammates exit the vehicle and head for the field. It felt like she was watching a movie of her own life that she couldn’t be a part of anymore.

The lump in her throat made it hard to swallow. The air seemed thin, as if she couldn’t quite catch her breath. She didn't want to explain to her friends, she didn’t want to answer the phone calls that would inevitably come.

A single tear tracked down her cheek, leaving a cold trail. She felt the tears welling up in her eyes, but she blinked them away. She needed to be strong.

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