sad - Story 120624 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The chipped mug of lukewarm tea sat untouched on the table, reflecting the bleakness of the grey sky outside. Daniel couldn't shake the feeling of emptiness that had settled over him since the argument with his best friend. He hadn't left his room all day. The world felt muffled, distant. A new follower. He swiped to see the notification and his jaw clenched. Mr. Peterson, his English teacher. He’d never even spoken to him outside of class, so why? He started scrolling through the teacher’s profile, a desperate attempt to find an explanation, his hands shaking slightly.

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