sad - Story 120670 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The humming of the elevator, once a background noise, now felt like a taunt. She stared at the numbers that seemed frozen in time, her mind replaying the day’s events, each memory a fresh sting.

She wrapped her arms around herself, a physical manifestation of her emotional state. The tightness in her chest made each breath a struggle. Her coworker, Kevin, tried to offer a joke, but his words seemed to bounce off her.

She looked away, unable to meet his gaze. She felt a profound sense of disconnect, like she was observing herself from a distance, helpless to intervene. She blinked to keep the tears from falling.

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