sad - Story 120565 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The empty dance floor echoed the hollowness inside Clara. Leo's party was already in full swing, music blasting from across the street. She'd chosen to stay home, nursing a lukewarm cup of tea.

She stared at the balloons she'd painstakingly inflated, now drooping and deflated. The decorations seemed mocking, reminders of a joy she couldn't access.

She looked at her reflection in the darkened window, a stranger staring back at her. The party was supposed to be a joyous occasion, a time to celebrate. Instead, it was just…nothing.

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