sad - Story 120579 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The familiar scent of the ocean, once a source of comfort, now carried a bitter tang. He stood on the beach, watching the waves crash against the shore. The very same waves that he and Ben had splashed in, laughing, so many years ago.

He had spotted Ben at a beachside bar, and nervously approached him. Ben had looked at him, confused, and apologized, saying he didn't know him. The memory was like a wound, raw and exposed.

His chest felt tight, constricted. He could not breathe. He closed his eyes. The roar of the ocean seemed to mock 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