sad - Story 120540 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He walked aimlessly around the campus, the announcement of the mistake echoing in his head. The vibrant colors of the autumn leaves seemed dull. The scholarship was what allowed him to make it. He was a fool.

The weight of the world settled on him. He felt unable to move. He felt like the one who would get punished. It was all a mistake.

The sky looked gray. He wrapped his arms around himself, as if trying to physically contain the turmoil within. He was alone. He was empty. The thought of facing tomorrow was completely exhausting.

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