sad - Story 120668 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The stale air felt heavy in her lungs. She stared at the illuminated panel, the numbers refusing to change. The memory, a persistent phantom, returned to haunt her. She felt drained of all energy. The walls seemed to close in on her, and each breath was an effort.

Her coworker, Tom, was attempting to make light conversation, but she could barely hear him. Her ears rang, and a dull ache throbbed in her head. She wished the world would just stop for a moment.

She hugged herself, needing the feeling of being held, even if it was just her own arms. She felt like a ship lost at sea, tossed by the waves.

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