sad - Story 120620 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The buffet was a blur of colors and smells, none of which held any appeal. She pushed the food around on her plate, her appetite gone. She looked at her parents, who were surrounded by well-wishers, their faces glowing. A feeling of… something… washed over her, a wave of weariness and something else she couldn’t quite name.

She remembered her childhood, the carefree days filled with laughter and adventure. Now, as her parents embarked on this new chapter, she felt a profound sense of loss. She felt like she was being left behind.

She looked at the podium, where she was supposed to deliver the speech. Her stomach churned. She felt a tightness in her chest, a physical manifestation of her inner state. She took a deep breath and walked towards the microphone, the weight of the moment pressing down on her.

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