sad - Story 120660 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The setting sun cast long shadows across the beach, but the beauty of the scene did nothing to soothe Sarah. The wind whipped her hair across her face, mirroring the turbulent emotions churning inside her. She was supposed to text her sister a picture of the sunset, a small, shared moment of beauty. Instead, the photo, along with a bitter message about how she felt, was sent to her estranged husband.

She squeezed her eyes shut, a wave of regret washing over her. She knew he wouldn't respond. He wouldn’t care. She turned away from the ocean, the vast expanse of water reflecting the emptiness she felt.

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