sad - Story 120559 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The door slammed shut. "A cat is completely unrealistic, Liam," his roommate, Ethan, had stated. Liam felt a cold wave wash over him. The air seemed thin, hard to breathe.

He couldn't focus on anything. His usual exuberance had been replaced with a deep weariness. The apartment felt vast and echoey, a constant reminder of the companionship he was missing.

He found himself staring at the empty space where a cat bed would have been, a lump forming in his throat. He felt an emptiness that seemed to radiate from within.

He decided to go for a long walk. The cold night air offered little comfort, but it was better than the suffocating atmosphere of the apartment.

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