sad - Story 120679 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I'm going to miss you," he muttered, as Professor Garcia packed her office. Her leaving made his project feel like a sinking ship, taking away his support.

He shifted uncomfortably, the dust motes dancing in the afternoon sun seeming to mock his inertia. The air in the room felt thick, difficult to breathe. He stared at the floor, suddenly fascinated by the patterns on the carpet.

His gaze flickered to the door. He felt a desperate urge to run, to escape this moment of finality, but his feet were planted, rooted to the spot.

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