sad - Story 120603 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Mom always said Grandma never stepped out of line," Maya whispered, her voice barely audible. The photo showed her grandmother, radiant in a shimmering gown, laughing with a handsome stranger at a ballroom dance. This went against everything she'd learned. Her grandmother, the epitome of quiet dignity, the saintly matriarch, was a vibrant, laughing woman.

A tight knot formed in Maya's chest. She felt a sudden disconnect from the narratives that had shaped her life. This revelation felt like a betrayal. The air in the spare room felt thick, almost suffocating. The photographs, once relics of family history, now felt like accusations.

Maya stared at the photo, the image blurring through unshed tears. The floorboards creaked under her feet as she turned away, walking towards the window, wanting to be somewhere else.

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