sad - Story 120574 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Just a minute," the doctor said, glancing at the charts on his desk. David felt a tremor in his hands as he walked into the office. He hadn't seen Emily in years, but he had hoped, even expected, a flicker of familiarity.

Instead, she offered a professional smile, her eyes devoid of any spark. The conversation was stilted, filled with medical jargon. After the appointment, he walked to the parking lot. Each step felt heavy.

He had carried so many memories of their childhood adventures, the shared secrets, the dreams whispered under a starry sky. Now, it was like the wind had stolen them, leaving nothing but an empty space. A wave of exhaustion washed over him.

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