sad - Story 120627 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the art studio seemed dull and muted today. The canvas sat blank, mirroring the lack of inspiration that plagued Emily. The art competition she had been working towards had been postponed indefinitely. Her usually bright spirit felt dim. A notification popped up on her phone, drawing her attention away from her canvas. A new follower: Ms. Garcia, her photography teacher. He felt a lump form in her throat. She reluctantly clicked on the notification and felt a familiar feeling wash over 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