sad - Story 120593 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The world felt muted. Each footstep was an effort. Sarah barely registered the bustling streets as she walked, the vibrant colors of the market stalls seeming dull and distant. The rejection email was a weight in her pocket, a constant reminder of the door slammed shut.

She found herself in a park, sitting on a bench beneath a weeping willow. Its branches drooped, mirroring her posture. She watched children laugh and play, their carefree joy a painful contrast to her internal state.

She pulled out the manuscript, tracing the cover with a trembling fingertip. It felt like a part of her, discarded and unwanted. A single tear traced a path down her cheek, a silent testament to her disappointment.

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