sad - Story 120568 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Chloe traced patterns on the condensation of her windowpane, watching the world go by. Leo's party was a kaleidoscope of color and movement. Her own apartment, by contrast, felt stark, devoid of energy.

The cake she'd baked, a simple chocolate loaf, sat untouched on the counter. She’d even gotten herself a new dress. Now the dress hung on a hanger, gathering dust.

She felt a strange ache, a dull throb in her chest. Everything felt distant, muted, as if observed through a pane of frosted glass.

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