sad - Story 120629 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold pizza sat untouched on the table, a testament to the lack of appetite that had settled over Sophia. Her band had been rejected from the battle of the bands competition. Her dreams of performing on stage felt crushed. A notification on her phone offered a temporary distraction. A new follower: Ms. Lee, her music teacher. She let out a small sigh and closed her eyes. Her fingers felt numb. She felt a sense of dread.

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