sad - Story 120573 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The party was a cacophony of loud music and forced cheer. Clara stood near the buffet table, picking at a miniature quiche, the food suddenly tasteless. Ethan, the boy who'd once been her confidant, had walked right past her without a flicker of recognition.

He'd been laughing with a group of friends, his face animated, oblivious to the girl standing just a few feet away. A coldness spread through her, chilling her to the bone. Every happy face in the room seemed to mock her.

She excused herself from the buffet, and went to the patio. The night air offered some relief, but the warmth of the lights offered no comfort. All she could think about was the echoing silence left by his lost memory.

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