sad - Story 120537 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old, worn novel she loved, usually a source of solace, sat unopened on the nightstand. Sarah stared at the ceiling, the glow-in-the-dark stars mocking her. The scholarship was her freedom, her opportunity. Now it was gone.

She felt like a bird that had been clipped of its wings, forced back into its cage. Her breath was shallow. Sleep evaded her, the thoughts swirling like a vortex.

She wished she could just disappear. She needed to be strong, though, and to find the will to fight. She took a deep breath, the air not filling her lungs. The world suddenly felt very bleak.

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