sad - Story 120519 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I sat in my room, staring at my reflection. My eyes, usually bright, looked dull and lifeless. The team photo, propped up on my desk, felt like a cruel joke. My hand went to the jersey. The letter I had earned would be stripped away.

The weight in my chest was crushing. I couldn’t eat, couldn’t sleep. The world seemed to have lost its color.

I wanted to scream, to smash something, anything to release the pressure building inside. Instead, I just sat there.

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