sad - Story 120548 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the kitchen felt thick with unspoken things as Maria confronted her son, Leo. He had been so evasive lately, so quick to retreat to his room. She hadn't understood, and now…

She stared at the screen, the curated reality staring back at her. The photos were of a different Leo, a version of her son who seemed lost, and a longing she couldn’t quite name. She felt a pressure in her chest, a squeezing that stole her breath.

Maria leaned back against the counter, the cool tile doing nothing to ease the sudden heat that flushed her face. The truth, raw and undeniable, hung in the air like a storm cloud.

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