sad - Story 120588 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The radio in the taxi was blaring, filling the small space with an unwanted energy. Amelia stared out the window, watching the city lights blur together. Her eyes stung with unshed tears.

Then, the opening chords. Her song. Sung by a voice that wasn't hers. It felt… sanitized. The emotion, the rawness she poured into it, was gone. Replaced with something… plastic.

She asked the driver to turn it off. He complied without a word, leaving the silence deafening. The car felt colder now. The city outside, darker.

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