sad - Story 120589 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was wandering through the empty museum, avoiding eye contact with the few other visitors. He just needed to be alone. To think. To *feel* without being judged.

Suddenly, the familiar opening strains. A string quartet was rehearsing in a nearby hall. *His* song. But it was no longer his. It was… elegant, polished. It wasn't the ragged thing that poured from his soul.

He leaned against a cold marble statue, feeling the cold seep into his bones. It was a perfect piece, beautiful and graceful. And it made him feel small. And empty.

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