sad - Story 120566 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"So, you're *really* not going?" Maya asked, her voice laced with a mixture of concern and a touch of impatience. It was their birthday, and Amelia was still at home.

Amelia shrugged, avoiding her friend’s gaze. The vibrant colors of Maya’s dress, the bright energy surrounding her – it all felt like a foreign language. She picked at a loose thread on her jeans.

"It's just… I’m tired." She knew it wasn’t the truth, but it was the easiest thing to say.

The silence that followed was heavy, filled with unspoken anxieties and a sense of disconnection. She wished she could feel the same excitement, the same anticipation, but the thought felt like a tight knot in her stomach.

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