sad - Story 120680 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a betrayal. Professor Olsen, who had encouraged her from the very beginning, was leaving. The world seemed to tilt on its axis.

She stood frozen in the hallway, the bustling activity of the campus a dull roar in her ears. Her breath came in shallow gasps. Her head throbbed. She clutched her backpack, the straps digging into her shoulders, a physical manifestation of the crushing weight she felt.

She finally turned and walked away, the bright sunlight seeming to mock her as she went. The future, once so promising, now felt like a vast, empty expanse.

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