sad - Story 120663 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold, sterile environment of the elevator amplified the ache in her chest. She had avoided making eye contact with her coworker, David, since the doors slammed shut. She’d been dreading the office holiday party all week, another forced smile and meaningless conversation. Now this.

She leaned against the wall, the metal cool against her cheek. She was tired of pretending. The elevator’s lack of movement felt like an intentional restriction. The ceiling seemed to press down on her.

"Hey," David said quietly. "You alright?" His voice, usually so boisterous, was softer now. She stared at the floor, unable to respond. The world seemed to be fading around her.

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