sad - Story 120578 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bustling marketplace, once a playground for their childhood games, now felt like a foreign land. Maria observed Sofia, browsing through a stall of handcrafted jewelry. The carefree joy he remembered was absent, replaced by a polite, distant demeanor.

Maria had attempted to greet her, but the response was a polite, formal smile. Her words seemed to bounce off Sofia, failing to connect, unable to bridge the gap of forgotten years. A wave of disillusionment washed over her, making the colorful displays appear bland and lifeless.

A profound heaviness settled within her, a leaden weight that made it difficult to move. She needed to escape.

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