sad - Story 120533 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Everything alright, Alex?" Professor Davies asked gently, his voice echoing in the nearly empty lecture hall. Alex flinched, the sound startling him from his stupor. He hadn't realized he was staring blankly at the blackboard.

He mumbled an affirmative, his voice thick and uneven. He felt a profound hollowness within. The professor, a man he admired, was offering him a helping hand but the words would not come. The world had gone silent.

The campus, usually bustling with activity, felt distant and blurred. He pushed his chair back, his knuckles white against the wood. The weight of the situation felt like a physical burden. He could barely muster the strength to walk out of the room.

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