sad - Story 120558 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Absolutely not," Claire had declared regarding a guinea pig. It was a firm rejection. The world felt like it had dimmed around Alex.

His energy plummeted. He sat hunched in his chair, staring out of the window. His breakfast went untouched. The apartment seemed to shrink with each passing hour.

He drifted through his routine, going through the motions. The thought of the little creature, the furry friend, and how he had so eagerly wanted one, brought an ache that was almost too much to bear.

His eyes burned. He blinked rapidly, forcing back the tears. The apartment had gone from feeling like a place of refuge to a prison.

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