sad - Story 120590 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was driving, the windows down, trying to escape the confines of his apartment. The air was thick with the scent of rain, and the radio was his only companion.

Then the song started. His song. Sung by a group with a big sound. It was catchy, polished, and devoid of the ache that drove him to create it. He turned it off, the sudden silence piercing.

He pulled over to the side of the road, the world around him dim and muted. He was left with an echo of loss, reverberating inside. The city lights 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