sad - Story 120580 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The reunion was a disaster. It was always a gamble to go back, she had thought, and she was right. Standing in the gym, filled with the echoes of their shared adolescence, she felt her stomach churn. She spotted Josh across the room, and walked over, her heart pounding.

He looked at her, and his eyes were flat. "Sorry, I don't think we've met." The words were a knife. The happy music felt shrill, the chatter unbearable. She made a quick excuse and slipped out the back door, the cool night air offering little respite.

She was alone. She had never felt so much alone. She walked into the night, the darkness her only companion.

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