sad - Story 120553 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Just no," Ben had said, his voice flat. He refused to even consider the notion of a goldfish. Liam leaned against the kitchen counter, the cheerful yellow of the wallpaper feeling dull. The rejection echoed in the space around him.

He skipped dinner, unable to stomach the thought of eating alone. The apartment felt more spacious than usual, and empty. Each corner seemed to breathe a sigh of emptiness.

The silence was almost unbearable. He ran his hand across the cold, smooth countertop. He replayed the conversation in his head, Ben's unwavering stance. The thought produced a heavy weight in his heart.

He felt a sudden, fierce urge to cry, a sensation he hadn't experienced since childhood. He retreated to his room and shut the door, the flimsy wood offering little protection from the emptiness of the world.

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