sad - Story 120543 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Mom, can I talk to you?" Sarah mumbled, kicking at a loose stone on the patio. Her daughter, Maya, usually bubbly and eager to chat, was reserved. Sarah, already feeling a deep sense of gloom after a frustrating day at work, felt her own mood plummet further.

She watched Maya's face fall as she was confronted with the truth of the secret account, with a name that she didn't recognise. All the pictures had been carefully curated, portraying a version of Maya she didn't recognise. A wave of exhaustion washed over Sarah.

“I… I don’t know what to say,” Sarah admitted, her voice barely a whisper. She looked at her daughter’s averted gaze, at the tears starting to well in her eyes, and a vast, empty space opened up within her. The world seemed muted, the colors faded.

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