sad - Story 120563 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sunlight streaming through the window felt intrusive. Chloe pulled the covers over her head, wishing the day would just disappear. Today was her birthday, and also Leo’s. She knew his party would be a raucous affair. Hers? Likely an empty house.

She burrowed further under the sheets, the cotton a flimsy barrier against the world. Her stomach felt hollow, a cavernous emptiness. Her fingers clutched the worn teddy bear she'd had since childhood, seeking a semblance of comfort.

She wanted to call her best friend, but the words wouldn’t come. The very act of speaking felt like too much effort.

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