sad - Story 120684 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The garden was overgrown, weeds choking the meticulously planted roses and herbs. The once vibrant colors seemed muted, mirroring the dull ache in his chest. He used to spend hours tending to his plants, finding solace in the quiet rhythms of nature. His daughter, Chloe, inherited his love for gardening.

He found Chloe in the garden, her small hands gently pulling weeds from around a struggling sunflower. “Daddy, the roses don’t look very happy,” she observed, her brow furrowed with concern. He felt the familiar tightness in his chest. He didn't have the energy to explain to her the way the light made them seem more beautiful.

He sighed, pushing a stray strand of hair from his eyes. "They need more sun, I guess," he mumbled, his voice flat. He used to find peace amongst the flowers, the way the sunlight kissed them. Now, the garden just felt like another reminder of his own neglected spirit.

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