sad - Story 120683 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The darkroom, usually a haven of focused creativity, felt claustrophobic. The red light cast long, distorted shadows, mirroring the shadows that had taken root within him. The developing chemicals and the acrid smell of fixer used to excite him. Now, the glossy prints and the intricate process were just…work. His daughter, Maya, loved photography.

The familiar click of the door brought Maya into the room, her small hands holding her camera. "Daddy, look! I took some pictures of the cat!" Her voice was bright, full of enthusiasm. He couldn’t bring himself to meet her gaze.

He gestured vaguely at the prints drying on the rack. "Good, honey. That’s… that's great." He could feel his shoulders slump, his body heavy. He used to find a catharsis in capturing moments, freezing time. Now, the images just felt like echoes of a life he no longer recognized.

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