sad - Story 120539 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A slow, steady drizzle coated the windows of the apartment, reflecting the inner turmoil of Emily. She sat on the floor, surrounded by textbooks and crumpled papers. The reality of the situation washed over her in waves.

She had built her entire future on this. She had quit her job, moved here, and had invested everything. She felt like she had been tricked. Her jaw clenched, and she had a hard time breathing.

She couldn't believe it. This wasn't supposed to happen. She felt a profound sense of injustice, coupled with a crushing feeling of helplessness. The room felt cold, the atmosphere heavy.

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