sad - Story 120653 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee cup trembled in Amelia's grasp, the lukewarm liquid sloshing over the rim. She hadn't slept well in days. Everything felt off-kilter, a little bit wrong. She was meant to text her sister a funny meme, hoping to lift her spirits after a bad day at work, but the wrong contact was chosen. The text, a stream of consciousness, spilled out to her boss.

Her palms began to sweat. Her chest tightened. She pictured the awkward silence that would now permeate their Monday morning meeting. She dropped the phone, the clatter echoing in the otherwise empty apartment, and curled up on the couch, the world feeling suddenly, irrevocably grey.

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