sad - Story 120636 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He held the letter to his late wife in his weathered hands. The paper was stiff, the ink faded, but the emotions it conveyed were as vibrant as if they were written today. He remembered writing it, the surge of optimism he felt at the time, before everything went wrong. His mouth twisted downward.

The room, a library filled with books, suddenly seemed to shrink. He felt confined, trapped in a cage of memories. The scent of old paper and leather filled his nostrils. He inhaled slowly, wishing to breathe easier.

He closed his eyes, the image of her face seared in his mind. The letter, a symbol of promises broken, was a sharp reminder. The air in the room felt heavy and the warmth seemed to have vanished.

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