sad - Story 120626 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the half-eaten plate of pasta, the food suddenly devoid of all appeal. The argument with his parents echoed in his ears. The words, sharp and stinging, replayed in his head. The air in the house felt thick, suffocating. His phone, which he'd left lying on the couch, buzzed. A new follower: Mr. Evans, his math teacher. His gut clenched. He hadn't been attending class regularly lately. Did Mr. Evans know? Had he seen him failing? He closed his eyes, fighting back a wave of something he couldn't name.

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