sad - Story 120546 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"This can't be happening," Lisa whispered to herself, tracing the lines of the social media page. Her daughter, Jessica, the girl who would always greet her with a hug, the girl who painted her nails, was a different person online.

The account was filled with provocative images, flirty messages, and a reckless disregard for the world. Her carefully constructed life suddenly felt fractured. The air in the room grew heavy, making it hard to breathe.

She felt a hollowness in her chest, a physical ache that settled deep within. This secret world, so different from the one Lisa shared with her daughter, threatened to engulf her.

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