sad - Story 120549 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

John felt the floorboards creak under his weight as he paced the living room. His daughter, Olivia, had been so eager to grow up, so desperate to be independent. He’d supported her, encouraged her, and now...

He sat at his desk, staring at the screen. The secret account displayed a girl who was nothing like his Olivia. The photos were provocative, the comments vulgar. A deep ache settled in his bones.

He thought of all the times he'd failed, all the things he hadn't said, all the chances he'd missed. The weight of his own perceived failings pressed down on him, and a profound sense of isolation washed over him.

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