sad - Story 120687 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cluttered canvas on the easel felt heavy, the vibrant paints an unwelcome sight. The act of painting, once a source of release and catharsis, now felt like a chore. He’d lost his spark. His daughter, Sofia, saw colors everywhere he no longer could.

He turned as Sofia entered the studio, her small hands already reaching for a brush. “Daddy, can we paint together today?” Her voice was clear, hopeful. He felt the weight settle in his gut, a constant companion.

He managed a weak smile. "I don't know, Sofi. Maybe tomorrow." He used to find solace in the strokes, the colors, the way the brush moved. Now, the canvas felt empty, reflecting the void within him.

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