sad - Story 120569 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David watched the clock tick, each second a slow, deliberate torture. The invitations he had sent out were still unanswered, which made him feel like a small child waiting for Christmas who knew he wouldn't get a present. Emily’s party, he knew, would be packed.

He considered turning on the TV, but the thought of mindless entertainment felt insulting. The walls of his apartment seemed to close in, the air heavy with an unspoken melancholy.

He stared at his reflection in the darkened screen, searching for a spark of something, anything, but finding only emptiness staring back.

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