sad - Story 120538 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bustling cafeteria, filled with the aroma of pizza and the chatter of students, felt like a cruel joke to David. He sat alone at a table, pushing around a plate of untouched fries. The scholarship had been the culmination of years of hard work.

His head throbbed. He imagined himself leaving, packing up his life, telling his friends. The idea was almost unbearable. His appetite had completely vanished.

He avoided eye contact with anyone. He wanted to scream. He wanted to run. He just wanted it all to be a bad dream. The bright lights of the cafeteria seemed to intensify the feeling of being cut off.

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