sad - Story 120648 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee, usually a source of comfort, now felt like a taunt. James leaned against the counter in the breakroom, the stainless steel cold against his back. The news hung in the air, heavy and suffocating.

He hadn't been here as long as some. Still, he had invested his time, his energy, his hopes in this place. Now, it was all being dismantled. The thought of losing the people, the friends, was particularly painful.

He took a long sip of the coffee, its bitterness not a welcome sensation. He sighed and looked at the clock, watching the seconds tick away, each one a relentless reminder. The day was moving forward, but he felt anchored.

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